[_delirium]

> The cluster was brought up at once, and I added the ramp up time on the chart so folks could see it.

Can any person really bring up a cluster of this size? On AWS, you need special permission to launch more than ~20 instances of one type, and it's granted only after you make a business case for it, which they won't grant to regular peons. With my regular Google account that doesn't have any kind of special approval, can I really launch 330 instances within a few minutes?

[yizzerin]

There is a CPU quota limit (and a disk limit) that you have to get approved to raise (and I think there's a limit to how many requests/second you can make to the GCE API), but if you get those approvals, you're good.