MATLAB parallel loop with slight delays

I have a parallel loop in matlab shown below. Is there a way to make sure the loops are not running simultaneously but with a slight delay? I am open to use batch or spmd also but have limited knowledge of them and will appreciate any help. I am calling another program, myprogexe.exe, but this program needs to access a specific port on a pc and multiple requests cant go in. hence i need to make sure there is a very slight delay in requests. myprogexe.exe is a very computational heavy code itself (takes about 10 mins for each input to run)

parfor i=1:length(MinorRoots)
   runmodels = MinorRoots{i};
   cmd = ['$myprogexe -v 2014.2  ', runmodels];
   [status, result] = system(cmd);
end

Answer 1

[Edric Ellis]

You could use spmd to do this, but note that the following approach isn't completely ideal because it adds additional synchronisation points.

    spmd
        origLimit = length(MinorRoots);
        loopLimit = numlabs * ceil(origLimit/numlabs);
        for i = labindex:numlabs:loopLimit
            labBarrier; % synchronise all workers

            if i <= origLimit
                pause(labindex-1); % timing offset
                ... run your code ...
            end
        end
    end