If you run any more than 1 MIP WU per 5 MB of L3 Cache your whole CPU performance will be reduced by over 60% as it constantly chokes.

I'm able to run 8 tasks on a i7-2600 Dell OptiPlex 990 with 8GB RAM. They take around 3.25 hrs to complete.

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<name>mip1</name>
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Here are notes from today's monthly call with the MIP researchers.

1. They are working on creating more batches--generally they like to have at least 2,000 available for download, but they'd like to have a larger backlog going forward. The first step (which they're working on) is pulling more targets to look at.
2. They're putting an informal paper up on a pre-print server (not an official publication) that gives an overview of how the researchers plan to use the MIP data. As soon as the paper is up, we'll publicize it in the MIP forum. This paper is considered a preface (or introduction) to the three formal papers that they've talked about in their project updates.
3. The three upcoming papers will focus more on protein function prediction and biology.
4. The researcher in Poland gave a high-level talk about the project a few weeks ago at a local meeting.

Update on work unit progress (as of October 1):
Available for Download: 1,730 batches*
In Progress: 9,925 batches (16,285,432 work units)
Completed: 22,1948 batches total, 7,749 in the last 30 days, 258/day average

*NOTE - The researchers are building more batches--this is just the number available for download as of the date of this post. The researchers do not have an estimate of how many total batches they will be submitting for the project.