diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
index d84ea554..1606d99a 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
@@ -379,9 +379,6 @@ class Trainer(TrainerIO):
         :param tries:
         :return:
         """
-        # hack to get nccl to stop throwing error... seems to be an nccl race condition
-        if self.proc_rank > 0:
-            sleep(10.0)
 
         root_node = os.environ['SLURM_NODELIST'].split(' ')[0]
         os.environ['MASTER_ADDR'] = root_node