diff --git a/launcher/launch.py b/launcher/launch.py
index 33415ae04..c99ece38f 100644
--- a/launcher/launch.py
+++ b/launcher/launch.py
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 import os
+import re
 import subprocess
 import threading
 import sys
 import time
+from functools import reduce
 
 
 class PropagatingThread(threading.Thread):
@@ -36,6 +38,88 @@ def join(self):
 COMMON_REQUIRED_ENVS = ["DMLC_ROLE", "DMLC_NUM_WORKER", "DMLC_NUM_SERVER",
                         "DMLC_PS_ROOT_URI", "DMLC_PS_ROOT_PORT"]
 WORKER_REQUIRED_ENVS = ["DMLC_WORKER_ID"]
+NUMA_PATH = "/sys/devices/system/node"
+
+
+def get_numa_info():
+    ret = []
+    if os.path.exists(NUMA_PATH):
+        items = os.listdir(NUMA_PATH)
+        nodes = list(filter(lambda str: str.startswith("node"), items))
+        if nodes:
+            for node in nodes:
+                items = os.listdir(os.path.join(NUMA_PATH, node))
+                cpus = [re.findall("cpu\d+", cpu) for cpu in items]
+                cpus = list(filter(lambda x: x, cpus))
+                cpu_ids = [int(cpu[0].split('cpu')[1]) for cpu in cpus]
+                cpu_ids = sorted(cpu_ids)
+                ret.append(cpu_ids)
+    else:
+        print("NUMA PATH %s NOT FOUND" % NUMA_PATH)
+    return ret
+
+
+def allocate_cpu(local_size):
+    def _get_allocation(nodes, quota):
+        if quota < 1:
+            raise ValueError("quota should be no less than 1")
+        ret = []
+        for node in nodes:
+            if len(node) < quota:
+                continue
+            split_index = []
+            for i in range(1, quota):
+                if node[i] != node[i-1] + 1:
+                    split_index.append(i)
+            quota_bck = quota
+            last_idx = 0
+            for idx in split_index:
+                ret.append(node[last_idx:idx])
+                quota -= idx - last_idx
+                last_idx = idx
+            ret.append(node[last_idx:last_idx+quota])
+            for idx in sorted(range(quota_bck), reverse=True):
+                del node[idx]
+            return ret
+        return ret
+
+    def _get_quota(nodes, local_size):
+        if len(nodes) > 1:
+            cpu_nums = reduce(lambda x, y: (len(x) + len(y)), nodes)
+        else:
+            cpu_nums = len(nodes[0])
+        
+        # default quota is the number of cpus for non-root processess
+        default_quota = int(os.getenv("BYTEPS_NUMA_DEFAULT_QUOTA", 6))
+        while default_quota >= 1 and default_quota * local_size > cpu_nums:
+            default_quota -= 2
+
+        # root quota is the number of cpus for root processess
+        # root does more work, thus using more cpus
+        root_quota = cpu_nums - default_quota * (local_size - 1)
+        if int(os.getenv("BYTEPS_NUMA_ROOT_QUOTA", 0)):
+            root_quota = int(os.getenv("BYTEPS_NUMA_ROOT_QUOTA", 0))
+
+        node_size = len(nodes[0])
+        while root_quota >= 1 and root_quota > node_size:
+            root_quota -= 2
+        return [default_quota] * (local_size - 1) + [root_quota]
+
+    nodes = get_numa_info()
+    if not nodes:
+        return None
+    quota_list = _get_quota(nodes, local_size)
+    ret = []
+    for quota in quota_list:
+        while quota > 0:
+            allocation = _get_allocation(nodes, quota)
+            if allocation:
+                ret.append(allocation)
+                break
+            else:
+                quota -= 2
+
+    return ret
 
 
 def check_env():
@@ -55,7 +139,7 @@ def check_env():
             os._exit(0)
 
 
-def worker(local_rank, local_size, command):
+def worker(local_rank, local_size, command, allocation=None):
     my_env = os.environ.copy()
     my_env["BYTEPS_LOCAL_RANK"] = str(local_rank)
     my_env["BYTEPS_LOCAL_SIZE"] = str(local_size)
@@ -64,6 +148,20 @@ def worker(local_rank, local_size, command):
             command = "python " + command
         command = "gdb -ex 'run' -ex 'bt' -batch --args " + command
 
+    if allocation:
+        print("enable NUMA finetune...")
+        retval = subprocess.call(
+            ["dpkg", "-s", "numactl"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+        if retval == 0:
+            numa = "numactl --physcpubind "
+            for cpu_set in allocation:
+                numa += "{}-{},".format(cpu_set[0], cpu_set[-1])
+            numa = numa.strip(',') + ' '
+            command = numa + command
+            print("Command: %s\n" % command)
+        else:
+            print("Warning: numactl not found. try `sudo apt-get install numactl`.")
+
     if os.environ.get("BYTEPS_TRACE_ON", "") == "1":
         print("\n!!!Enable profiling for WORKER_ID: %s and local_rank: %d!!!" %
               (os.environ.get("DMLC_WORKER_ID"), local_rank))
@@ -89,10 +187,18 @@ def launch_bps():
         else:
             local_size = 1
         t = [None] * local_size
+
+        if os.environ.get("BYTEPS_NUMA_ON", "") == "1":
+            allocations = allocate_cpu(local_size)
+
         for i in range(local_size):
             command = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
-            t[i] = PropagatingThread(target=worker, args=[
-                                    i, local_size, command])
+            if os.environ.get("BYTEPS_NUMA_ON", "") == "1":
+                t[i] = PropagatingThread(target=worker, args=[
+                    i, local_size, command, allocations[i]])
+            else:
+                t[i] = PropagatingThread(target=worker, args=[
+                    i, local_size, command])
             t[i].daemon = True
             t[i].start()