Except that it's hard to determine from the information available to the application all the necessary parameters. For example, an Athlon 3800+ may be a single or dual core model - running at 2.4 or 2.0GHz - the dual core would thereofore per core be around 20% slower.

It's possible to find out what cache-size the processor is, but finding out how fast the memory is, and how much effect the speed of the memory has is much harder [as that partly depends on what else is going on in the machine at the same time].

Running rosetta for 10 seconds without majorly changing how Rosetta works would not achieve anything useful, because it wouldn't finish working out a single model (decoy) of a protein in that time - not even enough to figure out how long it would take, I would think.

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Mats