diff --git a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/customize.py b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/customize.py
index c00ba02883..b56896d6ce 100644
--- a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/customize.py
+++ b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/customize.py
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ def get_run_cmd_reference(os_info, env, scenario_extra_options, mode_extra_optio
         env['RUN_DIR'] = os.path.join(env['CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_SOURCE'], "language", "llama2-70b")
         backend = env['CM_MLPERF_BACKEND']
         device = env['CM_MLPERF_DEVICE'] if env['CM_MLPERF_DEVICE'] != "gpu" else "cuda"
+
         cmd = env['CM_PYTHON_BIN_WITH_PATH'] + " main.py " \
                 " --scenario " + env['CM_MLPERF_LOADGEN_SCENARIO'] + \
                 " --dataset-path " + env['CM_DATASET_PREPROCESSED_PATH'] + \
@@ -305,12 +306,17 @@ def get_run_cmd_reference(os_info, env, scenario_extra_options, mode_extra_optio
                  scenario_extra_options + mode_extra_options + \
                 " --output-log-dir " + env['CM_MLPERF_OUTPUT_DIR'] + \
                 ' --dtype ' + env['CM_MLPERF_MODEL_PRECISION']
+
         if env.get('CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_API_SERVER', '') != '':
             env['CM_VLLM_SERVER_MODEL_NAME'] = env.get("CM_VLLM_SERVER_MODEL_NAME") or "NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
             #env['CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_API_SERVER'] = "http://localhost:8000"
             cmd += f" --api-server {env['CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_API_SERVER']} --model-path {env['CM_VLLM_SERVER_MODEL_NAME']} --api-model-name {env['CM_VLLM_SERVER_MODEL_NAME']} --vllm "
         else:
             cmd += f" --model-path {env['MODEL_DIR']}"
+
+        if env.get('CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_NUM_WORKERS', '') != '':
+            cmd += f" --num-workers {env['CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_NUM_WORKERS']}"
+
         cmd = cmd.replace("--count", "--total-sample-count")
     
     elif "mixtral-8x7b" in env['CM_MODEL']:
diff --git a/script/run-mlperf-inference-app/_cm.yaml b/script/run-mlperf-inference-app/_cm.yaml
index 7f9427bc16..706fd1dd2d 100644
--- a/script/run-mlperf-inference-app/_cm.yaml
+++ b/script/run-mlperf-inference-app/_cm.yaml
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ input_mapping:
   nvidia_llama2_dataset_file_path: CM_NVIDIA_LLAMA_DATASET_FILE_PATH
   tp_size: CM_NVIDIA_TP_SIZE
   vllm_model_name: CM_VLLM_SERVER_MODEL_NAME
+  num_workers: CM_MLPERF_INFERENCE_NUM_WORKERS
 
 new_state_keys:
 - app_mlperf_inference_*