# `pcluster stop`
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Stops the compute fleet, leaving the head node running.

```
pcluster stop [ -h ] [ -c {{CONFIG_FILE}} ] [ -r {{REGION}} ] {{cluster_name}}
```

## Positional arguments
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**{{cluster\_name}}**  
Stops the compute fleet of the provided cluster name.

**Example using Amazon ParallelCluster version 2.11.7:**

## Named arguments
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**-h, --help**  
Shows the help text for `pcluster stop`.

**-c {{CONFIG\_FILE}}, --config {{CONFIG\_FILE}}**  
Specifies the alternative configuration file to use.  
Defaults to `~/.parallelcluster/config`.

**-r {{REGION}}, --region {{REGION}}**  
Specifies the Amazon Web Services Region to use. Defaults to the Amazon Web Services Region specified by using the [`pcluster configure`](pcluster.configure.md) command.

```
$ pcluster stop {{mycluster}}
Compute fleet status is: STOPPED. Submitting status change request.
Request submitted successfully. It might take a while for the transition to complete.
Please run 'pcluster status' if you need to check compute fleet status
```

Sets the Auto Scaling group parameters to min/max/desired = 0/0/0, and terminates the compute fleet. The head remains running. To terminate all EC2 resources and avoid EC2 charges, consider deleting the cluster.