@larmer: Please read the comment again and understand what's being said (and what's not being said).
Let us give you a clue: The performance doesn't scale, that's why "many-computers" both are a scythe and a saw - not because there isn't enough computational power.
do people still believe “The Power of The Cloud” is real? Microsoft already fooled us all with that one before, why are people still being fooled by it? The cloud is not going to give you more power than local hardware. That’s just not how it works.
If you believe that then you truly have lived under a rock. And fyi, MS Azure isn't a joke. Utilizing someone-elses-computer-that's-much-more-specced-than-you'll-ever be™ (or "Cloud") is something that's being used plenty already, for instance Eve Online.
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