...handling that many different processes is probably going to burn out the opper - "Merrin", apparently - pretty quickly. But if she can control all five procedures simultaneously and integrate the results, there's expected efficiency gains from her doing that.
There's a lot of conversation going on behind the scenes right now, none of which Merrin should be bothered with. The only thing worth interrupting her is explicit confirmation that Merrin thinks she can keep this up this level of intensity for at least thirty minutes -