diff --git a/dist_run.py b/dist_run.py
index 3a8f16a0b..ca65a5b26 100644
--- a/dist_run.py
+++ b/dist_run.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
     get_num_params,
     GPUMemoryMonitor,
 )
-from distributed.verification_utils import find_cpu_tensors
 from torch.distributed.pipelining import PipelineStage, ScheduleGPipe
 from torchchat.cli.builder import _initialize_tokenizer, TokenizerArgs
 from torchchat.model import ModelArgs, Transformer
@@ -219,10 +218,9 @@ def _update_padded_sequence(
     new_token: torch.Tensor,
     prompt_lengths: List[int],
 ) -> None:
-    # TODO: this is a hacky way to update the padded sequence: when there is
-    # more than one prompt, the for loop and the assignment is incompatible.
     for i in range(len(prompt_lengths)):
-        padded_sequence[i, prompt_lengths[i]] = new_token
+        padded_sequence[i, prompt_lengths[i]] = new_token[i, 0]
+        # logger.info(f"updated prompt {i} with new token {new_token[i, 0]}")
 
 
 def _cleanup():
@@ -242,7 +240,7 @@ def main(args):
     distribution, model_dtype = NAME_TO_DISTRIBUTION_AND_DTYPE[model_name]
     logger.info(f"Using HF model weights from {distribution} and dtype {model_dtype}")
 
-    config = ModelArgs.from_name(distribution).transformer_args['text']
+    config = ModelArgs.from_name(distribution).transformer_args["text"]
     logger.info(f"Chat Model Config: {config}")
 
     tokenizer = _build_chat_tokenizer(model_name)
@@ -295,7 +293,7 @@ def main(args):
         logger.info(f"Model: {model}")
 
     mbs = 1  # number of micro-batches
-    mb_size = 1  # micro-batch size
+    mb_size = 5  # micro-batch size
     batch_size = mbs * mb_size  # total batch size
 
     seqlen = 4096  # sequence length
@@ -343,6 +341,10 @@ def main(args):
 
     prompt = [
         "What is snow?",
+        "Where does Santa Claus live?",
+        "What is PyTorch?",
+        "Write a poem about the beauty of the night sky.",
+        "What is the capital of France, Germany and Switzerland?",
     ]
 
     """
@@ -366,17 +368,23 @@ def main(args):
 
     start_pos = 0
 
+    # pipeline comms setup
+    first_pp_rank = 0
+    last_pp_rank = pp_group_size - 1
+
+    # Need these global ids due to the API definition of dist.send and recv
+    first_pp_rank_global_id = dist.get_global_rank(pp_group, first_pp_rank)
+    last_pp_rank_global_id = dist.get_global_rank(pp_group, last_pp_rank)
+
     # encode the prompt
     input_ids = _encode_strings(
         prompt, tokenizer, bos=True, device=device, dtype=torch.int64
     )
-    logger.info(f"{input_ids[0:8]=}")
 
     # create a padded tensor for the input prompt
     padded_sequence, prompt_lengths = _create_padded_prompts(
         input_ids, tokenizer, seqlen, start_pos, device
     )
-    logger.info(f"{prompt_lengths=}")
 
     # create schedule
     schedule = ScheduleGPipe(stage, mbs)
@@ -389,8 +397,10 @@ def main(args):
     last_pp_rank_global_id = dist.get_global_rank(pp_group, last_pp_rank)
 
     # New token generated each iteration
-    new_token = torch.zeros(1, device=device, dtype=torch.int64)
-    res = []
+    total_prompts = len(prompt_lengths)
+    # need a new token dimension (row) for each prompt in the batch
+    new_token = torch.zeros(total_prompts, 1, device=device, dtype=torch.int64)
+    res = [[] for _ in range(total_prompts)]
     num_tokens = 40
 
     # Decoding
@@ -415,8 +425,11 @@ def main(args):
                         f"responses ====>>>> {color.blue} {decode_results=}{color.reset}"
                     )
                 # decode results returns both token_id (int) and token_str (readable), hence [0] and [1]
-                new_token = torch.tensor([decode_results[0][0]], device=device)
-                res.append(decode_results[0][1])
+                for i in range(len(decode_results)):
+                    res[i].append(decode_results[i][1])
+                    new_token[i, 0] = torch.tensor(
+                        [decode_results[i][0]], device=device
+                    )  # decode_results[i][0]
 
             # sendrecv between last and first ranks, only if:
             # first_pp_rank != last_pp_rank.
@@ -435,20 +448,27 @@ def main(args):
 
             # Update input sequence with new token
             if pp_rank == first_pp_rank:
-                _update_padded_sequence(
-                    padded_sequence, new_token, prompt_lengths
-                )
+                _update_padded_sequence(padded_sequence, new_token, prompt_lengths)
 
             # increment prompt lengths for next token
             for i in range(len(prompt_lengths)):
                 prompt_lengths[i] += 1
 
+    # Display the decoding results
+
     # output formatted response via last pp group and tp rank 0
     if pp_rank == last_pp_rank and tp_rank == 0:
-        logger.info(f"Prompt:{color.green} {prompt[0]} {color.reset}")
-        formatted_response = " ".join(res)
-        logger.info(f"$$$$$$ {color.blue}{formatted_response} {color.reset}  $$$$$")
+        for i in range(len(prompt_lengths)):
+            logger.info(f"\nPrompt:{color.green} {prompt[i]} {color.reset}")
+
+            # TODO: resolve issue with llama2-7b-chat model and "".join
+            if model_name != "llama2-7b-chat":
+                formatted_response = "".join(res[i])
+            else:
+                formatted_response = " ".join(res[i])
+            logger.info(f"$$ {color.red}{formatted_response} {color.reset}  $$\n")
 
+    # Cleanup
     logger.info(
         f"{color.green}Success{color.white} - {color.blue}Rank {rank} has completed.{color.reset}"
     )
@@ -457,7 +477,12 @@ def main(args):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument("model_name", type=str, help="Name of the model to load", choices=NAME_TO_DISTRIBUTION_AND_DTYPE.keys())
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "model_name",
+        type=str,
+        help="Name of the model to load",
+        choices=NAME_TO_DISTRIBUTION_AND_DTYPE.keys(),
+    )
     parser.add_argument("--pp", type=int, default=1, help="Pipeline parallel degree")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/run_dist.sh b/run_dist.sh
index ed087d4e5..e6e3bb133 100644
--- a/run_dist.sh
+++ b/run_dist.sh
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ NGPU=${NGPU:-"4"}
 LOG_RANK=${LOG_RANK:-0,1,2,3}
 torchrun --nproc-per-node=$NGPU --master_port=$PORT \
 --local-ranks-filter ${LOG_RANK} --role rank --tee 3 \
-dist_run.py
+dist_run.py --pp 2 llama3