[bensandcastle]

The scaling issue the author identifies is exactly what we've built Strong Compute to solve. Dynamically scalable super computing.

"In this environment the problem with a single big unit is that significant updates to it are likely to be quite expensive and you probably simply won't have that money all in one lump at once."

This is true if you approach it as a long term lease, or a fixed purchase, which is often a requirement given even if using on demand or spot there's still a lot of setup work to do. Our focus to crush this issue. Zero code change from a small VM to a large cluster.