diff --git a/channels.scm b/channels.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9adf6e70827bc934b2aa6e54cde4d974ee391a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/channels.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+(list (channel
+        (name 'guix)
+        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
+        (branch "master")
+        (commit
+          "0d713e0140f4c4a80de6cbfc58fae17cb69beb98")
+        (introduction
+          (make-channel-introduction
+            "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
+            (openpgp-fingerprint
+              "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))
+      (channel
+        (name 'guix-hpc)
+        (url "https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-hpc")
+        (branch "master")
+        (commit
+          "2a264f59a2f7bd408840d2a85484bac3eb546e14")))
diff --git a/manifest.scm b/manifest.scm
index 97faf75f0e8eee0b3f45a4d6b427417bd40cf155..2e0723dbc9dbfe171f9c1513e8b11af05b1f8780 100644
--- a/manifest.scm
+++ b/manifest.scm
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
         "python-py-cpuinfo"
         "pybind11"
 
-        "slurm@21.08.8"
+        ;; "slurm@21.08.8"
 
         ;; needs that extra channel guix-hpc, currently I do not know to encode that here in that manifest file
         "likwid"