diff --git a/examples/slurm/fsdp_config.yaml b/examples/slurm/fsdp_config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1708fe20958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/slurm/fsdp_config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+distributed_type: FSDP
+fsdp_config:
+  fsdp_activation_checkpointing: false
+  fsdp_auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  fsdp_backward_prefetch: BACKWARD_PRE
+  fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
+  fsdp_forward_prefetch: false
+  fsdp_offload_params: false
+  fsdp_sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+  fsdp_state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
+  fsdp_sync_module_states: true
+  fsdp_use_orig_params: true
diff --git a/examples/slurm/submit_multinode_fsdp.sh b/examples/slurm/submit_multinode_fsdp.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f8ab5c914a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/slurm/submit_multinode_fsdp.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#SBATCH --job-name=multinode
+#SBATCH -D .
+#SBATCH --output=O-%x.%j
+#SBATCH --error=E-%x.%j
+#SBATCH --nodes=4                   # number of nodes
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1         # number of MP tasks
+#SBATCH --gres=gpu:4                # number of GPUs per node
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=160         # number of cores per tasks
+#SBATCH --time=01:59:00             # maximum execution time (HH:MM:SS)
+
+######################
+### Set enviroment ###
+######################
+source activateEnvironment.sh
+export GPUS_PER_NODE=4
+######################
+
+######################
+#### Set network #####
+######################
+head_node_ip=$(scontrol show hostnames $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST | head -n 1)
+######################
+export ACCELERATE_DIR="${ACCELERATE_DIR:-/accelerate}"
+
+export LAUNCHER="accelerate launch \
+    --config ${ACCELERATE_DIR}/examples/slurm/fsdp_config.yaml \
+    --num_processes $((SLURM_NNODES * GPUS_PER_NODE)) \
+    --num_machines $SLURM_NNODES \
+    --rdzv_backend c10d \
+    --main_process_ip $head_node_ip \
+    --main_process_port 29500 \
+    "
+export SCRIPT="${ACCELERATE_DIR}/examples/complete_nlp_example.py"
+export SCRIPT_ARGS=" \
+    --mixed_precision fp16 \
+    --output_dir ${ACCELERATE_DIR}/examples/output \
+    "
+    
+# This step is necessary because accelerate launch does not handle multiline arguments properly
+export CMD="$LAUNCHER $SCRIPT $SCRIPT_ARGS" 
+srun $CMD
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/accelerate/commands/config/config_args.py b/src/accelerate/commands/config/config_args.py
index 3039e45054b..a3991b2808d 100644
--- a/src/accelerate/commands/config/config_args.py
+++ b/src/accelerate/commands/config/config_args.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ def __post_init__(self):
 
 @dataclass
 class ClusterConfig(BaseConfig):
-    num_processes: int
+    num_processes: int = -1  # For instance if we use SLURM and the user manually passes it in
     machine_rank: int = 0
     num_machines: int = 1
     gpu_ids: Optional[str] = None
diff --git a/src/accelerate/commands/launch.py b/src/accelerate/commands/launch.py
index 9c937996a93..b4f606f493a 100644
--- a/src/accelerate/commands/launch.py
+++ b/src/accelerate/commands/launch.py
@@ -1074,6 +1074,8 @@ def _validate_launch_command(args):
         # Silently set the default here
         if args.dynamo_backend is None:
             args.dynamo_backend = "no"
+        if args.num_processes == -1:
+            raise ValueError("You need to manually pass in `--num_processes` using this config yaml.")
     else:
         if args.num_processes is None:
             if args.use_xpu and is_xpu_available():