diff --git a/example-notebooks/mpm/papermill-mpm.ipynb b/example-notebooks/mpm/papermill-mpm.ipynb
index 9002684..6e7c1e6 100644
--- a/example-notebooks/mpm/papermill-mpm.ipynb
+++ b/example-notebooks/mpm/papermill-mpm.ipynb
@@ -15,7 +15,17 @@
    "execution_count": 1,
    "id": "79aac18b-20ea-4a89-b9e9-85d50d69d84a",
    "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "\n",
+      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m A new release of pip is available: \u001b[0m\u001b[31;49m23.2.1\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m -> \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49m23.3.1\u001b[0m\n",
+      "\u001b[1m[\u001b[0m\u001b[34;49mnotice\u001b[0m\u001b[1;39;49m]\u001b[0m\u001b[39;49m To update, run: \u001b[0m\u001b[32;49mpip install --upgrade pip\u001b[0m\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
    "source": [
     "!pip install papermill --quiet"
    ]
@@ -52,14 +62,20 @@
       "  \"path\": {\n",
       "    \"name\": \"path\",\n",
       "    \"inferred_type_name\": \"str\",\n",
-      "    \"default\": \"'/MyData/mpm-benchmarks/2d/uniaxial_stress/'\",\n",
+      "    \"default\": \"\\\"/MyData/mpm-benchmarks/2d/uniaxial_stress/\\\"\",\n",
       "    \"help\": \"path to input file\"\n",
       "  },\n",
       "  \"input_file\": {\n",
       "    \"name\": \"input_file\",\n",
       "    \"inferred_type_name\": \"str\",\n",
-      "    \"default\": \"'mpm.json'\",\n",
+      "    \"default\": \"\\\"mpm.json\\\"\",\n",
       "    \"help\": \"input file.json\"\n",
+      "  },\n",
+      "  \"duration\": {\n",
+      "    \"name\": \"duration\",\n",
+      "    \"inferred_type_name\": \"str\",\n",
+      "    \"default\": \"\\\"00:10:00\\\"\",\n",
+      "    \"help\": \"Runtime duration ('HH:MM:SS')\"\n",
       "  }\n",
       "}\n"
      ]
@@ -82,19 +98,19 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": null,
    "id": "455571f2-daa2-4099-95a7-3518003e833a",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
      "data": {
       "application/vnd.jupyter.widget-view+json": {
-       "model_id": "51a8b21830b54c058a36a1ccfa56cc5b",
+       "model_id": "7e3a30ebadf544d5bcee10b0cbdda95d",
        "version_major": 2,
        "version_minor": 0
       },
       "text/plain": [
-       "Executing:   0%|          | 0/13 [00:00<?, ?cell/s]"
+       "Executing:   0%|          | 0/17 [00:00<?, ?cell/s]"
       ]
      },
      "metadata": {},
@@ -106,13 +122,13 @@
     "    \"template-mpm-run.ipynb\",  # input template notebook\n",
     "    \"mpm1.ipynb\",  # Your modified notebook\n",
     "    # Parameters that you can specify in the template notebook\n",
-    "    parameters=dict(path=\"/MyData/mpm-benchmarks/2d/uniaxial_stress/\"),\n",
+    "    parameters=dict(path=\"/MyData/mpm-benchmarks/2d/uniaxial_stress/\", duration=\"00:05:00\"),\n",
     ")"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {
-  "IMAGE_NAME": "taccsciapps/ds-nb-img:base-0.1.2",
+  "IMAGE_NAME": "taccsciapps/ds-nb-img:base-0.1.3",
   "UUID": "5c6ea4e0-6dde-11ee-b4d3-9a799580253c",
   "kernelspec": {
    "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
diff --git a/example-notebooks/mpm/template-mpm-run.ipynb b/example-notebooks/mpm/template-mpm-run.ipynb
index b4c2cb2..844e1b9 100644
--- a/example-notebooks/mpm/template-mpm-run.ipynb
+++ b/example-notebooks/mpm/template-mpm-run.ipynb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 1,
+   "execution_count": 21,
    "id": "b7fa3e9a-7bf3-441c-917f-fb57a94ee017",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -48,25 +48,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 2,
-   "id": "6a0daf58-cf6c-41f9-89b7-bc60d7042e04",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [
-    {
-     "name": "stdout",
-     "output_type": "stream",
-     "text": [
-      "fatal: destination path '/home/jupyter/MyData/mpm-benchmarks' already exists and is not an empty directory.\n"
-     ]
-    }
-   ],
-   "source": [
-    "!git clone https://github.com/cb-geo/mpm-benchmarks ~/MyData/mpm-benchmarks"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 3,
+   "execution_count": 22,
    "id": "8593c08c-c96a-4a66-9b52-80b8b5c27e44",
    "metadata": {
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    "outputs": [],
@@ -116,7 +98,7 @@
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@@ -128,9 +110,9 @@
       "---Job Info---\n",
       "\n",
       "{\n",
-      "  \"appId\": \"mpm-1.1.0u3\",\n",
+      "  \"appId\": \"mpm-1.0.0\",\n",
       "  \"name\": \"mpm-uniaxial\",\n",
-      "  \"batchQueue\": \"development\",\n",
+      "  \"batchQueue\": \"skx-dev\",\n",
       "  \"nodeCount\": 1,\n",
       "  \"processorsPerNode\": 1,\n",
       "  \"memoryPerNode\": \"1\",\n",
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    "outputs": [],
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    "outputs": [
@@ -193,7 +175,7 @@
      "name": "stderr",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Waiting for job to start: 2it [00:30, 15.09s/it, Status: RUNNING]\n",
+      "Waiting for job to start: 2it [00:30, 15.13s/it, Status: RUNNING]   \n",
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@@ -208,7 +190,7 @@
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      "text": [
-      "Monitoring job:  10%|████▊                                           | 4/40 [01:00<09:03, 15.08s/it]"
+      "Monitoring job:  10%|████▊                                           | 4/40 [01:00<09:04, 15.13s/it]"
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@@ -222,7 +204,7 @@
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-      "Monitoring job:  12%|██████                                          | 5/40 [01:15<08:49, 15.13s/it]"
+      "Monitoring job:  12%|██████                                          | 5/40 [01:15<08:50, 15.15s/it]"
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@@ -245,7 +227,7 @@
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-     "execution_count": 7,
+     "execution_count": 26,
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     }
@@ -256,7 +238,7 @@
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@@ -266,10 +248,17 @@
      "text": [
       "Runtime Summary\n",
       "---------------\n",
-      "PENDING   time: 0:00:00\n",
-      "QUEUED    time: 0:00:05\n",
-      "RUNNING   time: 0:01:09\n",
-      "TOTAL     time: 0:01:35\n",
+      "PENDING             time: 0:00:00\n",
+      "PROCESSING_INPUTS   time: 0:00:03\n",
+      "STAGING_INPUTS      time: 0:00:05\n",
+      "STAGED              time: 0:00:00\n",
+      "STAGING_JOB         time: 0:00:03\n",
+      "SUBMITTING          time: 0:00:06\n",
+      "QUEUED              time: 0:00:05\n",
+      "RUNNING             time: 0:01:09\n",
+      "CLEANING_UP         time: 0:00:00\n",
+      "ARCHIVING           time: 0:00:08\n",
+      "TOTAL               time: 0:01:39\n",
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    "id": "5e2c642e-88c3-42be-acb6-2966cc31f90c",
    "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [
-    {
-     "data": {
-      "text/plain": [
-       "'Transitioning from status ARCHIVING to FINISHED in phase ARCHIVING.'"
-      ]
-     },
-     "execution_count": 9,
-     "metadata": {},
-     "output_type": "execute_result"
-    }
-   ],
+   "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "ag.jobs.get(jobId=job[\"id\"])[\"lastStatusMessage\"]"
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@@ -309,17 +287,17 @@
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-       "'/home/jupyter/MyData/archive/jobs/job-7f1dcdf6-e747-47f0-9266-f210454faf13-007'"
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