diff --git a/.buildkite/amip/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/amip/pipeline.yml
index 54ecd6b970..0eacbf0bc4 100644
--- a/.buildkite/amip/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/amip/pipeline.yml
@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ steps:
         artifact_paths: "experiments/ClimaEarth/output/amip/amip_artifacts/*"
         timeout_in_minutes: 4320
         env:
-          CLIMACOMMS_CONTEXT: "MPI"
           CLIMACOMMS_DEVICE: "CUDA"
         agents:
           slurm_gpus_per_task: 1
           slurm_cpus_per_task: 4
-          slurm_ntasks: 4
+          slurm_ntasks: 1
           slurm_mem: 30GB
         soft_fail: true