diff --git a/examples/new_project_templates/trainer_gpu_cluster_template.py b/examples/new_project_templates/trainer_gpu_cluster_template.py
index 70813ceb64..98cf87af33 100644
--- a/examples/new_project_templates/trainer_gpu_cluster_template.py
+++ b/examples/new_project_templates/trainer_gpu_cluster_template.py
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ def main(hparams, cluster, results_dict):
     # 1 INIT LIGHTNING MODEL
     # ------------------------
     print('loading model...')
-    print(os.environ['SLURM_SRUN_COMM_HOST'])
     model = LightningTemplateModel(hparams)
     print('model built')
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
index d07f52d5dc..4478081a20 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ class Trainer(TrainerIO):
         # saves the ip to disk
         ip_table_name = f'.ip_meta_' + os.environ['SLURM_JOB_ID']
         ip_file = os.path.join(ip_file_dir, ip_table_name)
+        os.makedirs(ip_file_dir, exist_ok=True)
+
         if world_gpu_nb == 0:
             # get the proc 0 IP
             root_ip = subprocess.run(['hostname', '-I'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode('utf-8')