One of the major stipulations that governed the initial pitch of the project was in relation to the startup costs required to initialize a computational cluster, and also to enumerate a center with enough devices to allow the project to run at realtime.
The major goal of the project is for it to indeed perform at 24 frames per seconds. It was, however, stipulated that if, over the course of the project, it was determined that realtime could be achieved but would require a massive scaling of hardware to complete, then the project would pass as a proof of concept engineering project. One of the factors that helped to back this agreement was the cost of enterprise equipment.
As a result of this, if realtime could not be achieved without an influx of $10,000 of hardware, and this could be proven with interpolation to help identify the amount of nodes required to help the project realtime, then the project would still pass.
This is crucial to understand in light of the scope of the project, as it is written to be infinitely scalable and to allow the inclusion of many, many nodes and add them to the computing pool, regardless or not if the original project leader could afford to amass the required amount of nodes.
All of the findings, performance and other information will be presented later in the paper with inclusive and fully comprehensive notes regarding the final outcomes.