diff --git a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/fsdp_tp_example.py b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/fsdp_tp_example.py
index 92828df5cf..9c32d1038b 100644
--- a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/fsdp_tp_example.py
+++ b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/fsdp_tp_example.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import sys
 import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 import torch.nn as nn
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@
 
 from torch.distributed._tensor.device_mesh import init_device_mesh
 import os
-from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger
+from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger, verify_min_gpu_count
 
 """
 This is the script to test 2D Parallel which combines Tensor/Sequence
@@ -46,6 +47,12 @@
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17g6WqrO00rP3MsxbRENsPpjrlSkwiA_QB4r93_eB5is/
 """
 
+_min_gpu_count = 2
+
+if not verify_min_gpu_count(min_gpus=_min_gpu_count):
+    print(f"Unable to locate sufficient {_min_gpu_count} gpus to run this example. Exiting.")
+    sys.exit(0)
+
 
 def find_multiple(n: int, k: int) -> int:
     """function to find resizing multiple for SwiGLU MLP"""
diff --git a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/log_utils.py b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/log_utils.py
index 611b25a412..f16d46526d 100644
--- a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/log_utils.py
+++ b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/log_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import torch
 
 logging.basicConfig(
     format="%(asctime)s %(message)s", datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p", level=logging.INFO
@@ -12,3 +13,10 @@ def rank_log(_rank, logger, msg):
     """helper function to log only on global rank 0"""
     if _rank == 0:
         logger.info(f" {msg}")
+
+
+def verify_min_gpu_count(min_gpus: int = 2) -> bool:
+    """ verification that we have at least 2 gpus to run dist examples """
+    has_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()
+    gpu_count = torch.cuda.device_count()
+    return has_cuda and gpu_count >= min_gpus
diff --git a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/sequence_parallel_example.py b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/sequence_parallel_example.py
index aa943a7304..6a9de413bb 100644
--- a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/sequence_parallel_example.py
+++ b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/sequence_parallel_example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+import sys
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
     RowwiseParallel,
 )
 
-from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger
+from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger, verify_min_gpu_count
 
 
 """
@@ -29,6 +30,11 @@
 now is different so that we need one all-gather for input and one reduce-scatter
 in the end of the second linear layer.
 """
+_min_gpu_count = 2
+
+if not verify_min_gpu_count(min_gpus=_min_gpu_count):
+    print(f"Unable to locate sufficient {_min_gpu_count} gpus to run this example. Exiting.")
+    sys.exit(0)
 
 
 class ToyModel(nn.Module):
diff --git a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py
index f25252b998..bc8325d5d7 100755
--- a/distributed/tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py
+++ b/distributed/tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+import sys
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 
@@ -11,7 +12,9 @@
 )
 
 
-from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger
+from log_utils import rank_log, get_logger, verify_min_gpu_count
+
+
 
 
 """
@@ -45,6 +48,11 @@
 Parallelism APIs in this example to show users how to use them.
 """
 
+_min_gpu_count = 2
+
+if not verify_min_gpu_count(min_gpus=_min_gpu_count):
+    print(f"Unable to locate sufficient {_min_gpu_count} gpus to run this example. Exiting.")
+    sys.exit(0)
 
 class ToyModel(nn.Module):
     """MLP based model"""
diff --git a/run_python_examples.sh b/run_python_examples.sh
index 1b45a281cf..c933cf8f65 100755
--- a/run_python_examples.sh
+++ b/run_python_examples.sh
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ function distributed() {
     start
     python tensor_parallelism/tensor_parallel_example.py || error "tensor parallel example failed"
     python tensor_parallelism/sequence_parallel_example.py || error "sequence parallel example failed"
-    python tensor_parallelism/two_d_parallel_example.py || error "2D parallel example failed"
-    python ddp/main.py || error "ddp example failed" 
+    python tensor_parallelism/fsdp_tp_parallel_example.py || error "2D parallel example failed"
+    python ddp/main.py || error "ddp example failed"
 }
 
 function fast_neural_style() {
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ function mnist() {
   python main.py --epochs 1 --dry-run || error "mnist example failed"
 }
 function mnist_forward_forward() {
-  start 
+  start
   python main.py --epochs 1 --no_mps --no_cuda || error "mnist forward forward failed"
 
 }
@@ -212,9 +212,8 @@ function clean() {
 function run_all() {
   # cpp
   dcgan
-  # distributed
-  fast_neural_style
   distributed
+  fast_neural_style
   imagenet
   mnist
   mnist_forward_forward