Having been an HPC sys admin pre and post cloud, this unicorn comes around about every ten years... many previous startups failed because they tried to push expensive custom hardware with fancy interconnects, but most importantly, there isn&#x27;t a need because scaling apps horizontally instead of vertically is usually more powerful, cheaper and more reliable as evidenced by Google&#x27;s dominance.  Plus, Rocks Cluster, Hadoop, Kafka, Kinesis, iPython, Erlang&#x2F;OTP, Akka and more already make these sort of things moot because deploying a resilient cluster has not been as impressive as summiting Mt. Everest for a decade now.  It&#x27;s feels like trying to sell a magical product (cluster resource management) to get a major advance for free (single process system image).  Maybe they can make the file system, ram, network devices, packets, firewall rule and everything else magically work, but fault handling and  latency are big concerns that rapidly increase in complexity, orthogonal to anticipating understanding of how to most efficiently schedule what a process wants done when it would be simpler to code for parallelism such as MapReduce &#x2F; actors from the beginning.