In reply to Angus Looney.

Thank you, Angus, for your insightful and constructive comment. With "parallelisation factor of ~ 600" you really pushed it to the limit. It would have been interesting to see your research on such extreme cases. Maybe SAS Global Forum paper is in order?

I understand that overloading a laptop can lead to a sort of computer paralysis / freeze, but "melting" is probably an overstatement. :)