diff --git a/common/bmk-driver.sh b/common/bmk-driver.sh
index e30533e07ef119febfd9b5e96661eaf61a5efd89..23b1292ed922f2ed0a72181766046753ddf6d78b 100755
--- a/common/bmk-driver.sh
+++ b/common/bmk-driver.sh
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ function usage(){
   echo "  -W                           : (bool) store results in <resultsDir> directly (default: 0 , current: $skipSubDir)"
   echo "  -c --copies <NCOPIES>        : (int) # identical copies (default $NCOPIES)"
   echo "  -t --threads <NTHREADS>      : (ubt# threads (or processes, or threads*processes) per copy (default $NTHREADS)"
+  echo "  --mp_num <NTOTALTHREADS>     : (int) total number of threads (threads*copies)"
   echo "  -e --events <NEVENTS_THREAD> : # events per thread (default $NEVENTS_THREAD)"
   echo "  -m --mop <mode>              : clean working directory mode: none/all/custom (current: $MOP)"
   echo "  -d --debug                   : debug mode (current: $DEBUG)"
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ function usage(){
 #####################
 
 debug_args=$@
-OPTPARSE=`getopt -o c:t:e:w:Wdhm: --long help,debug,events:,threads:,copies:,mop: -n $bmkScript -- "$@"`
+OPTPARSE=`getopt -o c:t:e:w:Wdhm: --long help,debug,events:,threads:,copies:,mop:,mp_num: -n $bmkScript -- "$@"`
 if [ $? != 0 ] ; then echo "Invalid options provided." >&2 ; usage ; fi
 eval set -- "$OPTPARSE"
 
@@ -207,6 +208,15 @@ while true; do
       fi
       shift 2
       ;;
+    --mp_num )
+      if [ $2 -gt 0 ]; then
+        N_TOTAL_THREADS=$2
+      else
+        echo "[$bmkDriver] ERROR! Invalid argument '--mp_num $2' (must be > 0)"
+        exit 1 # early termination (invalid arguments to benchmark script)
+      fi
+      shift 2
+      ;;
     -e | --events )
       if [ $2 -gt 0 ]; then
         USER_NEVENTS_THREAD=$2
@@ -267,7 +277,7 @@ check_mandatory_functions
 check_mandatory_variables
 
 # Dump all relevant variables after parsing the input arguments
-for var in USER_NCOPIES USER_NTHREADS USER_NEVENTS_THREAD; do
+for var in USER_NCOPIES USER_NTHREADS USER_NEVENTS_THREAD N_TOTAL_THREADS; do
   echo "Current value: $var=${!var}"
 done
 echo
@@ -317,6 +327,11 @@ else
   echo -e "\n[$bmkDriver] function 'validateInputArguments' completed (status=$fail)\n"
 fi
 
+if [ "$N_TOTAL_THREADS" != "" ]; then NCOPIES=$((N_TOTAL_THREADS/NTHREADS)); fi
+if [ "$(($NTOTALTHREADS%$NTHREADS))))" != "0" ]; then
+    echo -e "[$bmkDriver] This benchmark uses $NTHREADS and can not fill nm_num ($NTOTALTHREADS) cores \n"
+fi
+
 # Set baseWDir and create it if necessary
 if [ "$skipSubDir" == "1" ]; then
   baseWDir=${resultsDir}
diff --git a/igwn/pe/igwn-pe/parseResults.py b/igwn/pe/igwn-pe/parseResults.py
index 601285929cef70f53cdd4bf913a92a4007cdd7f6..48e549663b1ac82e005fe06281b60bfd47b146e9 100755
--- a/igwn/pe/igwn-pe/parseResults.py
+++ b/igwn/pe/igwn-pe/parseResults.py
@@ -46,4 +46,3 @@ basewdir = os.environ['baseWDir']
 
 with open(basewdir+"/parser_output.json", "w") as OutputFile:
     json.dump(OutputJSON, OutputFile)
-