start = 30 end = 40 pathToInputFiles = batchJob.pathToInputFiles() inputFile1relPath = pathToInputFiles+'inputFile1.txt ' inputFile2relPath = pathToInputFiles+'inputFile2.txt' for i in range(start, end): # create a unique jobname for every job jobname = batchJobName+"_"+ str(i) print 'Creating job: '+jobname # create the single job job = JobObject(si) job.setJobname(jobname) # better to set the application to use explicitely because in that case we don't need to use mds (faster) job.setApplication('UnixCommands') job.setCommandline('cat '+ inputFile1relPath + ' ' + inputFile2relPath) job.setWalltimeInSeconds(60) # adding the job to the multijob batchJob.addJob(job) # only start the newly added jobs and wait for the restart to finish batchJob.restart(False, False, True, True) # don't forget to exit properly. this cleans up possible existing threads/executors sys.exit()