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I am brewing a large OG brew ... 1.108. I am referencing a pitching rate table in my john palmer book and looks like I will need 350-400+ billion cells to pitch. I was looking to do a 2L starter using a smackpack, but looks like the max output would be only 225 billion cells? How do I get up to...

I consider myself a novice brewer - still doing extract brews. I have never made a yeast starter before pitching -- always directly pitched dry/wyeast/white labs with no starter. I picked up a high OG stout (w00t stout) from norther and they do state a starter is all but necessary...