diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
index fa219ba14e..83ea60daab 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
@@ -343,11 +343,16 @@ class Trainer(TrainerIO):
         # this is based on its global rank
         # it communicates its ip by saving an ip_table to the slurm cluster logging dir
         # every other process waits for this ip to appear before continuing
-        ip_table_name = f'.ip_meta_' + os.environ['SLURM_JOB_ID']
+        ip_table_name = f'ip_meta_' + os.environ['SLURM_JOB_ID']
         ip_file = os.path.join(ip_file_dir, ip_table_name)
         os.makedirs(ip_file_dir, exist_ok=True)
 
-        dist.init_process_group("nccl", init_method=f'file://{ip_file}', rank=self.proc_rank,
+        root_node = os.environ['SLURM_NODELIST'].split(' ')[0]
+        print('-'*100)
+        print('SLURM ROOT NODE: ', root_node)
+        print('-'*100)
+
+        dist.init_process_group("nccl", init_method=f'env://{root_node}', rank=self.proc_rank,
                                 world_size=self.world_size)
         # self.__init_tcp_connection(ip_file_dir)