Table 2. DREAM2 Challenge 5 data testing.

BNFinder set-wise algorithm is used with 4 cores and 4 genes per task. The tasks were then distributed among computational nodes. l stands for BNFinder parents sets limit. CLR with cutoff means limiting output results to 100,000 genes interactions.

	CLR	CLR with cutoff	BNF, l = 1	BNF, l = 2	BNF, l = 3	BNF, l = 3
					Intel Xeon E5345	Intel Xeon E5-2690
CPU time, hours	0.7879	0.1999	2.0021	383.7149	109,200	54,800
Actual time, hours	0.2626	0.0666	0.0667	12.7904	336	169
Total CPU number	3	3	30	30	∼325	∼325