New capabilities available on the Azure Batch service

In the past few months, we've added many new capabilities to the Azure Batch service, including: * Support for [Linux compute nodes](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/batch-linux-nodes/). * Support for [MPI workloads on Windows](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/batch-mpi/). * Support for [application packages](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/batch-application-packages/). * Support for [task dependencies](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/batch-task-dependencies). * Configurable autoscale interval. * Client libraries for [Python, Java, and Node.js](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/batch-technical-overview/#batch-development-apis). * [Azure CLI](https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/xplat-cli-install/) support (Xplat-CLI). Additionally, we've made many improvements to the new [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/) experience for Batch, including: * The ability to create, update, and delete pools of compute nodes from the portal. * The ability to create, run, and terminate jobs and tasks from the portal. * The ability to see task logs from the portal. * Creation and management of application packages. * Improved compute node management (delete, reimage, connect). * Support for linked storage accounts. Visit [our documentation page](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/batch/) to learn more about these new features and everything else that's available to you with Batch. * Batch * Features * Services * [ Batch](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/batch/)