Kinda what I thought...so with all their resources brought to bear for naught, it unfortunately  doesn't look to promising for us to curb our problem either. Not good.

i7 6800 (6 core/12 thread), 24 GB RAM, 1 gtx 1080 ti (8GB Vram) + 1 Titan X (12GB Vram), PP11, Octane/Poser plugin, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Oh, and a wiener dog!