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Table 1 Example tasks run on Condor-COPASI on a pool of 2000 nodes, showing wall clock time on Condor, total CPU time, and speed-up factor (CPU time/wall clock time)

From: Condor-COPASI: high-throughput computing for biochemical networks

Task type

Description

Number of parallel jobs

Wall clock time

CPU time used

Speed-up factor

Global sensitivity analysis

27 parameters from NF κ B signalling model[19]

54

7 hours

368 hours

53

Global sensitivity analysis

30 parameters from MAPK signalling model[20]

60

7 hours

90 hours

13

Stochastic simulation

1,000,000 repeats of calcium oscillation model[21]

340

20 hours

2,280 hours

114

Parallel scan

300,000 repeats of NF κ B signalling model[19]

14,926

31 hours

3,980 hours

128

Parallel scan

100,000 repeats of MAPK signalling model[20]

1,849

3 hours

429 hours

143