# 100% offline sweep **URL:** \ **Category:** W&B Help\ **Tags:** sweeps, wandb\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482 "2022-12-01T10:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![felix\_quinton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@felix\_quinton](https://community.wandb.ai/u/felix_quinton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/1 "2022-12-01T10:27:07Z")
Hi, I’m using wandb sweeps for bayesian optimisation . However I recently got access to new powerfull gpus which are not connected to internet. So i’m trying to use the offline mode of wandb that seems to works fine with regular runs but doesn’t with sweeps. Indeed even in offline mode a connexion seems to still be required in order to create the sweep and to synchronise the data after a run (for the optimisation process). Is there any way to run a 100% offline sweep and to synchronise it manually at the end off each run or of the whole sweep ? ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/2 "2022-12-01T15:14:31Z")
Hi Felix, Unfortunately, there is no way for us to run sweeps in offline mode, this feature is not available as of right now. If you would like I could create a feature request for it, bump up the priority, and submit it to our engineers. Warmly, Artsiom ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/3 "2022-12-06T17:09:55Z")
Hi Félix, We wanted to follow up with you regarding your support request as we have not heard back from you. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance or if your issue has been resolved. Best, Weights & Biases ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/4 "2022-12-09T19:25:01Z")
Hi Félix, Since we have not heard back from you, we will close this request. If you would like to re-open the conversation, please let us know! Cheers! Weights & Biases ---
**Author:** ![matteo-bastico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@matteo-bastico](https://community.wandb.ai/u/matteo-bastico)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/5 "2023-01-12T17:00:56Z")
Hi, I also run wandb on an Slurm cluster in which computational nodes do not have internet connection. I am really interested in this feature. Has the feature request been created? ---
**Author:** ![optimass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/optimass/32/1149_2.png) [@optimass](https://community.wandb.ai/u/optimass)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/6 "2023-01-19T22:09:53Z")
Same here! I really need that feature ---
**Author:** ![rylan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/97f17d/32.png) [@rylan](https://community.wandb.ai/u/rylan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/7 "2023-01-19T23:06:44Z")
I really need this feature too! @artsiom , are there any workarounds? ---
**Author:** ![rylan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/97f17d/32.png) [@rylan](https://community.wandb.ai/u/rylan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/8 "2023-01-19T23:17:04Z")
@artsiom , to clarify my use case, I can create a sweep just fine (i.e. `wandb sweep ` works). Previous, I would launch SLURM jobs, each with 1 W&B agent, but due to my SLURM cluster’s new policies, each SLURM job has no internet access and thus no agent can acquire a run. Is there a workaround? ---
**Author:** ![lclissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@lclissa](https://community.wandb.ai/u/lclissa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/9 "2023-01-20T08:51:38Z")
I would love this feature too! To be honest I wouldn’t know how one could manage the run configuration exchange with the agent without connection, but running sweeps offline would be great! ---
**Author:** ![jiahaohuang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@jiahaohuang](https://community.wandb.ai/u/jiahaohuang)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/10 "2023-01-26T12:02:46Z")
Same here. Unfortunately most slurm cluster do not support network connection. Hope update soon. ---
**Author:** ![rylan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/97f17d/32.png) [@rylan](https://community.wandb.ai/u/rylan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/11 "2023-02-12T19:20:22Z")
I now have this problem with 2 other clusters. Can someone from W&B please suggest a solution, or discuss a workaround? I’m wondering if we can somehow persuade our clusters to run a W&B server internally that then gets occasionally synced to W&B’s machines? @artsiom , could you perhaps advise? ---
**Author:** ![stevencocke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@stevencocke](https://community.wandb.ai/u/stevencocke)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/12 "2023-03-24T18:54:23Z")
@artsiom I share this interest just like the other users, but I have not seen a reply in a long time. Do we need to make a new post? ---
**Author:** ![aaburaed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@aaburaed](https://community.wandb.ai/u/aaburaed)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/13 "2023-03-25T17:47:15Z")
Hi all, I am woundering if this feature has been implemented yet ? I also need to use it since most of the clusters I have access to has no internet access. Best regards ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/14 "2023-05-07T22:15:33Z")
Hi Guys, for some reason haven’t been getting notifications for this thread at all! Apologies to everyone. I have followed up with the our eng department and still waiting for a reply. I’ll make another feature request for you. But I would also advise making a new ticket, for visibility to show how many people want this feature request. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/15 "2023-05-07T22:21:07Z")
As a workaround, You can now potentially use the [Local Controller](https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/sweeps/local-controller), then when ready, you can [sync](https://docs.wandb.ai/ref/cli/wandb-sync) your runs to your profile. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/100-offline-sweep/3482/16 "2023-07-06T22:22:01Z")
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