diff --git a/scripts/CONFIG b/scripts/CONFIG
index 7562b0e..a03c528 100644
--- a/scripts/CONFIG
+++ b/scripts/CONFIG
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
+#
+# Default variables that we want to use in all of our scripts
+#
 export DOWNLOADS=~/Downloads
 export WORKDIR=~/rpi-hpl-workdir
 export RESULTSDIR=${WORKDIR}/results
 export SCRIPTSDIR=${PWD}
 export SERVICES="snap.lxd.daemon snap.lxd.daemon.unix.socket postfix systemd-timesyncd wpa_supplicant snapd snapd.apparmor.service systemd-resolved snapd.service snapd.socket"
 
+#
 # Flags based on https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/cortex-a72
+#
 export COMMON_FLAGS="-mtune=cortex-a72"
 
+#
+# This variable masks the fact if you want to write to output file or not
+# With a system that has SD card that is non-performant, then this value
+# with 1 may slow the overall HPL benchmark down
+#
+WRITE_OUT_FILE=0
+
diff --git a/scripts/run_job.sh b/scripts/run_job.sh
index 20129c9..50d2ba4 100755
--- a/scripts/run_job.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_job.sh
@@ -12,10 +12,19 @@ sudo systemctl stop ${SERVICES}
 for mount in $(df -h | grep loop.*snap | awk '{print $6}'); do sudo umount $mount; done
 
 cd ${SCRIPTSDIR}/../configs
-${WORKDIR}/hpl-2.3/bin/rpi4-mpich/xhpl | tee -a ${RESULTSDIR}/HPL.out.${TIMESTAMP}
 
-echo
-echo Results ...
-echo
+COMMAND="${WORKDIR}/hpl-2.3/bin/rpi4-mpich/xhpl"
+
+if [ ${WRITE_OUT_FILE} -eq 1 ] ; then
+  ${COMMAND} | tee -a ${RESULTSDIR}/HPL.out.${TIMESTAMP}
+
+  echo
+  echo Results ...
+  echo
+
+  grep WR.*17 ${RESULTSDIR}/HPL.out.${TIMESTAMP}
+
+else
+  ${COMMAND}
+fi
 
-grep WR.*17 ${RESULTSDIR}/HPL.out.${TIMESTAMP}