diff --git a/examples/run_text_generation_starcoder.sh b/examples/run_text_generation_starcoder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b2feb7bf68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/run_text_generation_starcoder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# This example will start serving the 1B model.
+# You may need to adapt Flask port if it's occupied in MegatronServer class, we chnaged it from 5000 (default) to 8080
+DISTRIBUTED_ARGS="--nproc_per_node 1 \
+                  --nnodes 1 \
+                  --node_rank 0 \
+                  --master_addr ip-26-0-156-228 \
+                  --master_port 6000"
+
+
+CHECKPOINT=/fsx/loubna/data/extra/generations_starcoder2_1b_200k/megatron
+
+#/mp_rank_00/model_optim_rng.pt
+VOCAB_FILE=/fsx/bigcode/experiments/pretraining/starcoder2-1B/checkpoints/conversions/vocab.json
+MERGE_FILE=/fsx/bigcode/experiments/pretraining/starcoder2-1B/checkpoints/conversions/merges.txt
+TOKENIZER_FILE=/fsx/loubna/data/tokenizer/starcoder2-smol-internal-1/tokenizer.json 
+
+export CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS=1
+
+#pip install flask-restful
+
+torchrun $DISTRIBUTED_ARGS tools/run_text_generation_server.py   \
+       --tensor-model-parallel-size 1 \
+       --pipeline-model-parallel-size 1 \
+       --num-layers 24 \
+       --hidden-size 2048 \
+       --num-attention-heads 16 \
+       --attention-head-type multiquery \
+       --init-method-std 0.02209 \
+       --seq-length 4096 \
+       --use-rotary-position-embeddings \
+       --max-position-embeddings 4096 \
+       --rotary-theta 100000 \
+       --attention-dropout 0.1 \
+       --hidden-dropout 0.1 \
+       --load ${CHECKPOINT}  \
+       --tokenizer-type TokenizerFromFile \
+       --tokenizer-file $TOKENIZER_FILE \
+       --bf16  \
+       --micro-batch-size 1  \
+       --out-seq-length 512  \
+       --seed 42
+       --output_file 
diff --git a/megatron/text_generation_server.py b/megatron/text_generation_server.py
index 58550f2e63..80dd0b288a 100644
--- a/megatron/text_generation_server.py
+++ b/megatron/text_generation_server.py
@@ -238,4 +238,4 @@ def __init__(self, model):
         api.add_resource(MegatronGenerate, '/api', resource_class_args=[model])
         
     def run(self, url): 
-        self.app.run(url, threaded=True, debug=False)
+        self.app.run(url, threaded=True, debug=False, port=8080)
diff --git a/tools/run_requests_humaneval.py b/tools/run_requests_humaneval.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/tools/run_requests_humaneval.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import requests
+import json
+from human_eval.data import write_jsonl, read_problems
+
+
+NUM_SAMPLES_PER_TASK = 1
+stop_tokens = ["\nclass", "\ndef", "\n#", "\n@", "\nprint", "\nif", "\n```", "<filename>", "<file_sep>", "<|endoftext|>"]
+
+
+def query_server(prompt, temperature=0.1):
+    url = 'http://localhost:8080/api'
+    headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}
+    data = {"prompts": [prompt], "tokens_to_generate": 256, "temperature": 0.00001, "stop_token": 0, "random_seed": 1234}
+    response = requests.put(url, json=data, headers=headers)
+    result = json.loads(response.text)["text"]
+    return result[0]
+
+
+def stop_at_stop_token(decoded_string, stop_tokens):
+    """
+    Produces the prefix of decoded_string that ends at the first occurrence of
+    a stop_token.
+    WARNING: the decoded_string *must not* include the prompt, which may have stop tokens
+    itself.
+    """
+    min_stop_index = len(decoded_string)
+    for stop_token in stop_tokens:
+        stop_index = decoded_string.find(stop_token)
+        if stop_index != -1 and stop_index < min_stop_index:
+            min_stop_index = stop_index
+    return decoded_string[:min_stop_index]
+
+
+def postprocess_generation(generation, prompt):
+    """Defines the postprocessing for a LM generation.
+    :param generation: str
+        code generation from LM
+    :param idx: int
+        (not used for Humaneval-Task)
+    """
+    if not generation.startswith(prompt[:20]):
+        print(f"issue with generation: {generation}")
+        print(f"origin prompt: {prompt}")
+    generation = generation[len(prompt) :]
+    return prompt + stop_at_stop_token(generation, stop_tokens)
+
+
+def main():
+    problems = read_problems()
+    prompts = [
+                problems[task_id]["prompt"]
+                for task_id in problems
+            ]
+    errors = []
+    success = 0
+    generations = []
+    postprocessed_generations = []
+    for i, prompt in enumerate(prompts):
+        prompt = prompt.strip()  
+        try:
+            result = query_server(prompt)
+            generations.append([result])
+            postprocessed_generations.append([postprocess_generation(result, prompt)])
+            success += 1
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Error processing problem '{i}': {e}")
+            errors.append(i)
+        if i % 10 == 0:
+            print(f"Processed {i} problems")
+            print(f"Failed problem generations are: {errors}")
+            #print(f"Example:\n{result}END\n")
+
+    print(f"Done! {success} successful problems out of {len(prompts)}, failed are: {errors}")
+
+    with open('megatron_generations_fixtemp_50.json', 'w') as f:
+        json.dump(generations, f)
+
+    with open('megatron_postprocessed_generations_fixtemp_50.json', 'w') as f:
+        json.dump(postprocessed_generations, f)
+    
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()