diff --git a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
index 36b69812..826b6425 100644
--- a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
+++ b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ class LightningTemplateModel(LightningModule):
 
         # try:
         #     if self.on_gpu:
+        import torch.distributed as dist
+        print(dist.get_world_size())
         train_sampler = DistributedSampler(dataset, rank=self.trainer.proc_rank)
         batch_size = batch_size // self.trainer.world_size  # scale batch size