# `pcluster stop`


Stops the compute fleet, leaving the head node running.

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

## Positional arguments


***cluster\$1name***  
Stops the compute fleet of the provided cluster name.

**Example using AWS ParallelCluster version 2.11.7:**

## Named arguments


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

**-c *CONFIG\$1FILE*, --config *CONFIG\$1FILE***  
Specifies the alternative configuration file to use.  
Defaults to `~/.parallelcluster/config`.

**-r *REGION*, --region *REGION***  
Specifies the AWS Region to use. Defaults to the AWS 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.