diff --git a/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/core/settings.py b/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/core/settings.py
index e64074c6d99c..fe0af49fc5c6 100644
--- a/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/core/settings.py
+++ b/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/core/settings.py
@@ -8,11 +8,7 @@
 
 from common_library.pydantic_validators import validate_numeric_string_as_timedelta
 from fastapi import FastAPI
-from models_library.basic_types import (
-    LogLevel,
-    PortInt,
-    VersionTag,
-)
+from models_library.basic_types import LogLevel, PortInt, VersionTag
 from models_library.clusters import (
     DEFAULT_CLUSTER_ID,
     Cluster,
@@ -26,6 +22,7 @@
     AnyUrl,
     Field,
     NonNegativeInt,
+    PositiveInt,
     field_validator,
 )
 from servicelib.logging_utils_filtering import LoggerName, MessageSubstring
@@ -77,6 +74,10 @@ class ComputationalBackendSettings(BaseCustomSettings):
     COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND_ENABLED: bool = Field(
         default=True,
     )
+    COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND_SCHEDULING_CONCURRENCY: PositiveInt = Field(
+        default=50,
+        description="defines how many pipelines the application can schedule concurrently",
+    )
     COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND_DASK_CLIENT_ENABLED: bool = Field(
         default=True,
     )
diff --git a/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/modules/comp_scheduler/_worker.py b/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/modules/comp_scheduler/_worker.py
index 38b575751427..397b68db0c9a 100644
--- a/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/modules/comp_scheduler/_worker.py
+++ b/services/director-v2/src/simcore_service_director_v2/modules/comp_scheduler/_worker.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import asyncio
 import contextlib
 import functools
 import logging
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
 from servicelib.redis import CouldNotAcquireLockError
 from servicelib.redis_utils import exclusive
 
+from ...core.settings import get_application_settings
 from ...models.comp_runs import Iteration
 from ..rabbitmq import get_rabbitmq_client
 from ._constants import MODULE_NAME_WORKER
@@ -62,11 +64,19 @@ async def _handle_apply_distributed_schedule(app: FastAPI, data: bytes) -> bool:
 
 
 async def setup_worker(app: FastAPI) -> None:
+    app_settings = get_application_settings(app)
     rabbitmq_client = get_rabbitmq_client(app)
-    await rabbitmq_client.subscribe(
-        SchedulePipelineRabbitMessage.get_channel_name(),
-        functools.partial(_handle_apply_distributed_schedule, app),
-        exclusive_queue=False,
+    app.state.scheduler_worker_consumers = await asyncio.gather(
+        *(
+            rabbitmq_client.subscribe(
+                SchedulePipelineRabbitMessage.get_channel_name(),
+                functools.partial(_handle_apply_distributed_schedule, app),
+                exclusive_queue=False,
+            )
+            for _ in range(
+                app_settings.DIRECTOR_V2_COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND.COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND_SCHEDULING_CONCURRENCY
+            )
+        )
     )
 
     app.state.scheduler_worker = create_scheduler(app)
@@ -74,5 +84,11 @@ async def setup_worker(app: FastAPI) -> None:
 
 async def shutdown_worker(app: FastAPI) -> None:
     assert app.state.scheduler_worker  # nosec
-    # TODO: we might need to cancel stuff here. not sure yet what
-    # unsubscribing is maybe not a good idea if we want to keep the data in the queue
+    rabbitmq_client = get_rabbitmq_client(app)
+    await asyncio.gather(
+        *(
+            rabbitmq_client.unsubscribe_consumer(*consumer)
+            for consumer in app.state.scheduler_worker_consumers
+        ),
+        return_exceptions=False,
+    )
diff --git a/services/director-v2/tests/unit/with_dbs/comp_scheduler/test_worker.py b/services/director-v2/tests/unit/with_dbs/comp_scheduler/test_worker.py
index 9c21d769809e..e9bc9e831a80 100644
--- a/services/director-v2/tests/unit/with_dbs/comp_scheduler/test_worker.py
+++ b/services/director-v2/tests/unit/with_dbs/comp_scheduler/test_worker.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # pylint: disable=too-many-statements
 
 import asyncio
-from typing import Awaitable, Callable
+from collections.abc import Awaitable, Callable
 from unittest import mock
 
 import pytest
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 from models_library.clusters import DEFAULT_CLUSTER_ID
 from pytest_mock import MockerFixture
+from pytest_simcore.helpers.monkeypatch_envs import setenvs_from_dict
+from pytest_simcore.helpers.typing_env import EnvVarsDict
 from simcore_service_director_v2.models.comp_runs import RunMetadataDict
 from simcore_service_director_v2.modules.comp_scheduler._manager import run_new_pipeline
 from simcore_service_director_v2.modules.comp_scheduler._models import (
@@ -83,10 +85,23 @@ async def mocked_scheduler_api(mocker: MockerFixture) -> mock.Mock:
     )
 
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def with_scheduling_concurrency(
+    mock_env: EnvVarsDict, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, scheduling_concurrency: int
+) -> EnvVarsDict:
+    return mock_env | setenvs_from_dict(
+        monkeypatch,
+        {"COMPUTATIONAL_BACKEND_SCHEDULING_CONCURRENCY": f"{scheduling_concurrency}"},
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("scheduling_concurrency", [1, 50, 100])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "queue_name", [SchedulePipelineRabbitMessage.get_channel_name()]
 )
 async def test_worker_scheduling_parallelism(
+    scheduling_concurrency: int,
+    with_scheduling_concurrency: EnvVarsDict,
     with_disabled_auto_scheduling: mock.Mock,
     mocked_scheduler_api: mock.Mock,
     initialized_app: FastAPI,
@@ -113,9 +128,8 @@ async def _project_pipeline_creation_workflow() -> None:
             use_on_demand_clusters=False,
         )
 
-    num_concurrent_calls = 10
     await asyncio.gather(
-        *(_project_pipeline_creation_workflow() for _ in range(num_concurrent_calls))
+        *(_project_pipeline_creation_workflow() for _ in range(scheduling_concurrency))
     )
     mocked_scheduler_api.assert_called()
-    assert mocked_scheduler_api.call_count == num_concurrent_calls
+    assert mocked_scheduler_api.call_count == scheduling_concurrency