diff --git a/.buildkite/JuliaProject.toml b/.buildkite/JuliaProject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0caa1377e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/JuliaProject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[extras]
+CUDA_Runtime_jll = "76a88914-d11a-5bdc-97e0-2f5a05c973a2"
+HDF5_jll = "0234f1f7-429e-5d53-9886-15a909be8d59"
+MPIPreferences = "3da0fdf6-3ccc-4f1b-acd9-58baa6c99267"
+
+[preferences.CUDA_Runtime_jll]
+version = "12.2"
+local = "true"
+
+[preferences.HDF5_jll]
+libhdf5_path = "libhdf5"
+libhdf5_hl_path = "libhdf5_hl"
+
+[preferences.MPIPreferences]
+_format = "1.0"
+abi = "OpenMPI"
+binary = "system"
+libmpi = "libmpi"
+mpiexec = "mpiexec"
diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index 217c9a55fd..e7e5cd7076 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -1,32 +1,31 @@
+agents:
+  queue: central  
+  modules: julia/1.9.3 cuda/12.2 ucx/1.14.1_cuda-12.2 openmpi/4.1.5_cuda-12.2 hdf5/1.12.2-ompi415 nsight-systems/2023.3.1
+
 env:
-  JULIA_VERSION: "1.9.3"
-  OPENMPI_VERSION: "4.0.4"
-  CUDA_VERSION: "11.2"
+  JULIA_LOAD_PATH: "${JULIA_LOAD_PATH}:${BUILDKITE_BUILD_CHECKOUT_PATH}/.buildkite"
+  JULIA_NVTX_CALLBACKS: gc
+  JULIA_CPU_TARGET: 'broadwell;skylake'
   OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS: 1
-  BUILDKITE_COMMIT: "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
-  BUILDKITE_BRANCH: "${BUILDKITE_BRANCH}"
-  GKSwstype: 100
-
-agents:
-  config: cpu
-  queue: central
-  slurm_ntasks: 1
+  OMPI_MCA_opal_warn_on_missing_libcuda: 0
+  SLURM_KILL_BAD_EXIT: 1
 
 steps:
   - label: "init environment :computer:"
     key: "init_cpu_env"
     command:
-
-      - echo "--- Configure MPI"
-      - julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("MPIPreferences"); using MPIPreferences; use_system_binary()'
-
+      - echo "--- Instantiate project"
       - "julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(;verbose=true)'"
-      - "julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()'"
       - "julia --project -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.status()'"
 
+      - echo "--- Instantiate test"
       - "julia --project=experiments -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(;verbose=true)'"
-      - "julia --project=experiments -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()'"
       - "julia --project=experiments -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.status()'"
+    agents:
+      slurm_cpus_per_task: 8
+      slurm_mem_per_cpu: 8G
+    env:
+      JULIA_NUM_PRECOMPILE_TASKS: 8
 
   - wait
 
@@ -58,3 +57,6 @@ steps:
       - label: "Water conservation"
         command: "julia --color=yes --project=experiments experiments/standalone/Soil/water_conservation.jl"
         artifact_paths: "experiments/standalone/Soil/water_conservation*png"
+  - wait
+
+  - command: "compact_depot"