If you forgive the shameless self-promotion, I did a talk on the scale and economics and so forth a while back you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 It has been posted on HN a few times before...the technology still puts a tingle in my spine
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By the powers bestowed upon me by hacker news user account creation, I absolve you from your sin of shameless self-promotion. Seriously though, I am as remote as possible from that industry (film and TV content creation!), but it absolutely fascinates me. I devour all and every article and paper (that I can understand) about this and HPC as well. You did well in video, we should do a documentary together on this theme!
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