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The execution of gtdiffrsp happens in the mergeClumps step and takes ~5 hequ-minutes per run (on average) to complete. Some individual runs (few percent) take considerably longer...up to 2 hours.
(update 5/25/2011) Statistics for mergeClump now show mean time of 14.4 CPU minutes (averaged across all CPU types, but mostly hequ and boer)