In the last FME World Fair (I know, I'm late) there is this great presentation about pushing FME Server to the limit. I strongly suggest you watch it if you like pushing things to the limit : https://www.safe.com/presentations/zipsters-magic-show-pushing-fme-limits/

I understand that we can have 250 engines per core, so on a machine with 4 cores it makes a total of 1000 engines.

At the end of the show @donatsafe​ challenge @lauraatsafe​ and @grantarnold​ to have 10 000 engines on a machine for next year World Fair.

What I don't understand is the big deal about that challenge...

Why don't they use a 128 cores machine available on AWS ?

 That way, they could get 32 000 engines (250 engines * 128 cores) and complete more than three times Don's challenge!

In my opinion, the biggest challenge here is to pay the machine!

Maybe there is something I didn't understand in the presentation though.

Please clarify that for me!

Thanks !