Right now, I am running simulations with a .bat file like the following:

call Abaqus job=job-1 interactive cpus=16
call Abaqus job=job-2 interactive cpus=16

Since I have about 500,000 elements and 700,000 nodes per job, I want to take advantage of my CPU processing. Unfortunately, after every job, calculator.exe runs with 1 CPU for about 2 hours in addition to the 3 hour job itself. This is because my fieldoutput request centroid data from C3D10 elements.

I want to take advantage of 15/16 cores while the 1 CPU is running calculator.exe.

Is there any way to tell my PC to run simulations sequentially while having calculator.exe run in parallel as soon as a job is done? Suggestions in either ABAQUS/CAE or .bat file format is fine. The only requirement is that I'd my solutions require not manual effort aka going back and manually starting calculator.exe per each finished job.

Example:

1. Job-1 finishes.
2. Job-2 starts. Job-1 calculator.exe starts.
3. Job-1 calculator.exe finishes and waits for Job-2.
4. Job-2 finishes. Job-2 calculator.exe starts.
5. and so on....