Azure Batch - Can I launch a linux VM?

Hi there,
Is there any way to use Azure Batch to launch Linux VMs? I have some scientific software that I would like to use Azure Batch to help parallelize. But as most scientific software goes, it will only runs on a *nix OS. 
Since Linux compute VMs can be launched in Azure (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/#Linux) itseems like Azure Batch should be able to manage that. But I don't see any examples of how.
I'm only looking to have the Batch worker nodes run linux. I'm ok running the master (which will be executing the .NET management code for the CloudPool) on a Windows OS.
Cheers,
Brett

Ok, thanks for the response. I look forward to being able to launch linux instances (whenever it is done). I'll have so many uses for it!
In the meantime, for those reading this that are interested, I there is a good Azure Friday video that discusses managing Linux instances, that gave some great pointers to replicating Azure Batch functions (albeit, a true Batch implementation would be much
better). Its still helpful though:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/videos/linux-virtual-machine-management-with-kundana-palagiri/
~Brett

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