diff --git a/lib/download-hits-json b/lib/download-hits-json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ae1404b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/download-hits-json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Standalone version: the ClickBench Playground bakes a pre-decompressed
+# hits.json into /opt/clickbench/datasets_ro and symlinks to it here. Outside
+# the Playground that path doesn't exist, and parseable/load already falls
+# back to downloading+decompressing hits.json.gz itself, so this script is a
+# no-op there. Kept as a stub only so bench_download() has something to call.
+set -e
+if [ -d /opt/clickbench/datasets_ro ]; then
+    dir="${1:-.}"
+    mkdir -p "$dir"
+    cd "$dir"
+    ln -sf /opt/clickbench/datasets_ro/hits.json hits.json
+fi
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diff --git a/parseable/benchmark.sh b/parseable/benchmark.sh
index 535701276c..861bf8055d 100755
--- a/parseable/benchmark.sh
+++ b/parseable/benchmark.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 export BENCH_DOWNLOAD_SCRIPT="download-hits-json"
+chmod +x ../lib/download-hits-json
 exec ../lib/benchmark-common.sh
diff --git a/parseable/data-size b/parseable/data-size
index 559b25d677..134b52d960 100755
--- a/parseable/data-size
+++ b/parseable/data-size
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -eu
 
-du -bcs local-store | grep total | awk '{print $1}'
+du -bcs data | grep total | awk '{print $1}'
diff --git a/parseable/install b/parseable/install
index 2d61f7ead5..3d39a979d7 100755
--- a/parseable/install
+++ b/parseable/install
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if [ ! -x ./parseable ]; then
     # v2.7.2 fixes the inference; verified locally end-to-end against
     # the bundled static_schema.json and hits.json.
     wget --continue --progress=dot:giga \
-        https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable/releases/download/v2.7.2/Parseable_OSS_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+        https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable/releases/download/v3.0.0/Parseable_OSS_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
     mv Parseable_OSS_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu parseable
     chmod +x parseable
 fi
diff --git a/parseable/load b/parseable/load
index 5cf60065f3..715f786f58 100755
--- a/parseable/load
+++ b/parseable/load
@@ -51,8 +51,14 @@ fi
 # subsequent chunk fails. 3 × 1000 lines is ~4x lower peak pressure
 # and empirically clears without 408s. curl --retry survives short
 # stalls so a briefly-saturated parseable doesn't fail the load.
-LINES_PER_CHUNK=1000
-INGEST_JOBS=3
+NUM_CORES=$(nproc)
+if [ "$NUM_CORES" -ge 190 ]; then
+    LINES_PER_CHUNK=2500
+    INGEST_JOBS=20
+else
+    LINES_PER_CHUNK=1000
+    INGEST_JOBS=3
+fi
 pv hits.json | parallel --pipe -N$LINES_PER_CHUNK --block 10M \
     --jobs "$INGEST_JOBS" --halt-on-error 0 '
         awk "BEGIN{print \"[\"} NR>1{print prev \",\"} {prev=\$0} END{if (prev) print prev; print \"]\"}" |
diff --git a/parseable/query b/parseable/query
index 34df5b8085..e468aeea20 100755
--- a/parseable/query
+++ b/parseable/query
@@ -7,16 +7,44 @@ set -e
 
 query=$(cat)
 
-# Parseable filters every query by [startTime, endTime] against the
-# row's ingest timestamp. The original benchmark used today's calendar
-# day, which only works if the dataset was loaded today. In the
-# playground the data is ingested during initial provisioning and
-# then frozen into a snapshot, so "today" from the query script's
-# point of view drifts past the load day and every row falls outside
-# the window → all queries return zero. Use a wide window that
-# covers any plausible load + query date.
-START_TIME="2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
-END_TIME="2099-12-31T23:59:00.000Z"
+# Derive Parseable's mandatory query window from the stream itself. Keep a
+# five-minute margin so events exactly at either reported boundary are not
+# lost to timestamp precision or boundary semantics. This lookup happens
+# before the query timer starts.
+stream_info=$(curl -sS --fail-with-body \
+    -u "admin:admin" 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/logstream/hits/info')
+
+mapfile -t time_range < <(
+    printf '%s' "$stream_info" | python3 -c '
+import json
+import sys
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+
+info = json.load(sys.stdin)
+
+def parse_timestamp(field):
+    value = info.get(field)
+    if not value:
+        raise ValueError(f"stream info has no {field}")
+    return datetime.fromisoformat(value.replace("Z", "+00:00")).astimezone(timezone.utc)
+
+def format_timestamp(value):
+    return value.isoformat(timespec="milliseconds").replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+print(format_timestamp(parse_timestamp("firstEventAt") - timedelta(minutes=5)))
+print(format_timestamp(parse_timestamp("latestEventAt") + timedelta(minutes=5)))
+'
+)
+
+if [ "${#time_range[@]}" -ne 2 ]; then
+    echo "could not derive query time range from hits stream info" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+START_TIME=${time_range[0]}
+END_TIME=${time_range[1]}
+
+echo "==> query time range: $START_TIME .. $END_TIME" >&2
 
 # JSON-escape quotes inside the query.
 escaped=$(printf '%s' "$query" | sed 's/"/\\"/g')
diff --git a/parseable/results/20260818/c6a.4xlarge.json b/parseable/results/20260818/c6a.4xlarge.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9f24c92af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parseable/results/20260818/c6a.4xlarge.json
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{
+      "system": "Parseable (Parquet, partitioned)",
+      "date": "2026-08-18",
+      "machine": "c6a.4xlarge",
+      "cluster_size": 1,
+      "proprietary": "no",
+      "hardware": "cpu",
+      "tuned": "no",
+      "tags": ["Rust","column-oriented","lukewarm-cold-run"],
+      "load_time": 4931,
+      "data_size": 14023558981,
+      "concurrent_qps": 0.88,
+      "concurrent_error_ratio": 0,
+      "result": [
+        [0.477, 0.068, 0.065],
+        [0.321, 0.06, 0.059],
+        [0.79, 0.106, 0.118],
+        [1.036, 0.118, 0.112],
+        [1.148, 0.513, 0.509],
+        [1.569, 0.694, 0.72],
+        [0.313, 0.048, 0.042],
+        [0.353, 0.074, 0.076],
+        [1.626, 0.83, 0.861],
+        [2.234, 0.927, 0.954],
+        [1.317, 0.251, 0.242],
+        [1.35, 0.274, 0.276],
+        [1.66, 0.798, 0.795],
+        [3.182, 1.38, 1.373],
+        [1.651, 0.908, 0.946],
+        [1.324, 0.615, 0.673],
+        [3.065, 1.552, 1.539],
+        [2.96, 1.538, 1.536],
+        [5.412, 2.636, 2.649],
+        [0.672, 0.088, 0.09],
+        [9.009, 2, 1.995],
+        [10.67, 2.762, 2.698],
+        [15.419, 4.219, 4.185],
+        [13.271, 1.074, 0.873],
+        [3.111, 0.231, 0.255],
+        [1.422, 0.442, 0.428],
+        [3.458, 0.364, 0.324],
+        [9.095, 2.894, 2.867],
+        [9.497, 8.115, 8.389],
+        [0.872, 0.519, 0.5],
+        [3.284, 0.854, 0.884],
+        [6.862, 1.068, 1.086],
+        [5.168, 3.15, 3.153],
+        [9.669, 4.369, 4.466],
+        [9.658, 4.382, 4.402],
+        [1.489, 1.222, 1.184],
+        [0.584, 0.109, 0.114],
+        [0.514, 0.081, 0.071],
+        [0.541, 0.056, 0.057],
+        [0.703, 0.191, 0.189],
+        [0.492, 0.04, 0.038],
+        [0.482, 0.037, 0.035],
+        [0.476, 0.033, 0.031]
+]
+  } 
+  
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