diff --git a/.buildkite/distributed/JuliaProject.toml b/.buildkite/distributed/JuliaProject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index fff554e83a..0000000000
--- a/.buildkite/distributed/JuliaProject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-[extras]
-CUDA_Runtime_jll = "76a88914-d11a-5bdc-97e0-2f5a05c973a2"
-CUDA_Driver_jll = "4ee394cb-3365-5eb0-8335-949819d2adfc"
-MPIPreferences = "3da0fdf6-3ccc-4f1b-acd9-58baa6c99267"
-
-[preferences.CUDA_Driver_jll]
-compat = false
-
-[preferences.CUDA_Runtime_jll]
-version = "12.2"
-local = "true"
-
-[preferences.MPIPreferences]
-_format = "1.0"
-binary = "MPItrampoline_jll"
diff --git a/.buildkite/distributed/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/distributed/pipeline.yml
index 27325c245a..bc6dd5c456 100644
--- a/.buildkite/distributed/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/distributed/pipeline.yml
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 agents:
-  queue: central
+  queue: new-central
   slurm_mem: 8G
-  modules: julia/1.10.0 cuda/12.2 ucx/1.14.1_cuda-12.2 openmpi/4.1.5_cuda-12.2 nsight-systems/2023.2.1
+  modules: climacommon/2024_02_27
+
 
 env:
   JULIA_LOAD_PATH: "${JULIA_LOAD_PATH}:${BUILDKITE_BUILD_CHECKOUT_PATH}/.buildkite/distributed"
   OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS: 1
-  JULIA_NVTX_CALLBACKS: gc
   OMPI_MCA_opal_warn_on_missing_libcuda: 0
   JULIA_CPU_TARGET: 'broadwell;skylake'
-  JULIA_CUDA_MEMORY_POOL: none
-  MPITRAMPOLINE_LIB: /groups/esm/software/MPIwrapper/ompi4.1.5_cuda-12.2/lib64/libmpiwrapper.so
-  MPITRAMPOLINE_MPIEXEC: /groups/esm/software/MPIwrapper/ompi4.1.5_cuda-12.2/bin/mpiwrapperexec
 
 steps:
   - label: "initialize"