So there's definitely some noticeable run-to-run variance on marvin4 with 5.0 kernel with 1, 2, and 4 processes: Amean 1 39.99 ( 0.00%) 30.06 ( 24.83%) 39.55 ( 1.10%) 40.41 ( -1.06%) 27.10 ( 32.24%) Amean 2 31.76 ( 0.00%) 31.41 ( 1.08%) 36.08 ( -13.60%) 31.54 ( 0.68%) 34.71 ( -9.31%) Amean 4 39.32 ( 0.00%) 34.54 ( 12.15%) 41.13 ( -4.60%) 42.66 ( -8.50%) 42.64 ( -8.44%) Amean 8 49.04 ( 0.00%) 48.64 ( 0.82%) 48.49 ( 1.13%) 48.90 ( 0.29%) 48.61 ( 0.89%) Amean 16 70.39 ( 0.00%) 70.45 ( -0.09%) 70.17 ( 0.30%) 70.09 ( 0.43%) 70.25 ( 0.19%) Amean 32 131.14 ( 0.00%) 128.87 ( 1.73%) 129.54 ( 1.22%) 128.55 ( 1.97%) 127.95 ( 2.43%) Amean 64 256.17 ( 0.00%) 256.22 ( -0.02%) 254.46 ( 0.67%) 255.01 ( 0.45%) 255.38 ( 0.31%)