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In our two-part series on advancing global network reliability through intelligent software, we explain how we’ve approached our network design, and how we’re constantly working to improve both reliability and performance.

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Low-priority Virtual Machines (VMs) on VM Scale Sets. Low-priority VMs allow users to run their workloads at a fraction of the price, enabling significant cost savings.

Machine Learning, AI, and HPC are changing the way every industry thinks, including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. These large computations are changing product design, end-customer experiences, enabling predictive support and leading to discoveries and innovations not previously possible.

You can now use the Azure CLI to run batch jobs end-to-end, no code required. An extension is available for the Azure CLI that adds Batch template support to enable pools, jobs, and tasks to be created, plus adds file transfer capabilities.

Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we are delighted to announce the public preview of a new way to obtain and consume Azure compute at a much lower price using Azure Batch – low-priority VMs.

I’m always amazed by the mind-blowing visual effects in today’s movies, but I know rendering these effects is one of the most complex aspects of a cinematic production.

We are happy to announce the release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v8 is the successor to the Microsoft MPI v7.1 redistributable package (released in June 2016).

The Azure Big Compute team is happy to announce version 1.0.0 of the Batch Shipyard toolkit, which enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools.

We are happy to announce the release of MPI support for Linux on Azure Batch. We earlier released MPI support for Windows, and recently introduced Linux support on Azure Batch.