Looks better than on my A6-3500 or i3-2100 Win8 systems. As soon as there are three CPU projects running on the A6, or four on the i3, POEM freezes and estimated time to completion shoots up to 100+ hours I then close as much projects as needed in order to have a core free.
Sometimes I have to let POEM run all by itself to clear the queue. That 8-core of yours is a bulldozer, or a hyperthreaded i7?