diff --git a/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/README.md b/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/README.md
index 4877f4a144..46d2a74d0b 100644
--- a/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/README.md
+++ b/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,14 @@ torchrun --nproc-per-node 4 benchmark_sharded_attention.py \
 | `--dtype` | `float32` | `float32`, `float16`, or `bfloat16` |
 | `--num_warmup` | 5 | Warmup iterations |
 | `--num_iterations` | 10 | Timed iterations |
-| `--output_file` | — | Path to write JSON results |
+| `--results_dir` | `<script_dir>/results/` | Directory for the auto-named JSON output |
+| `--print-only` | off | Skip writing JSON; print to stdout only |
+
+By default the benchmark writes a JSON file to `results/` whose name
+encodes the run configuration, e.g.
+`single_gpu_inference_float32_seq4096.json` or
+`distributed_4gpu_train_bfloat16_seq8192.json`. Pass `--print-only` to
+disable this.
 
 ## Plotting results
 
diff --git a/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/benchmark_sharded_attention.py b/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/benchmark_sharded_attention.py
index 99704a3cb4..3844b954db 100644
--- a/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/benchmark_sharded_attention.py
+++ b/examples/minimal/ShardTensorExamples/6_ring_attention/benchmark_sharded_attention.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import argparse
 import json
 from datetime import datetime
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -36,6 +37,13 @@
 
 from physicsnemo.utils import Profiler
 
+# Default output directory for benchmark JSON results, sibling to this script.
+# Filenames are built to match the regex consumed by ``plot_scaling_results.py``:
+#     <topology>_<mode>_<dtype>_seq<seq_len>.json
+# where ``<topology>`` is either ``single_gpu`` or ``distributed_<N>gpu``.
+_SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+DEFAULT_RESULTS_DIR = _SCRIPT_DIR / "results"
+
 
 def parse_args():
     """Parse command-line arguments for the attention benchmark.
@@ -43,7 +51,8 @@ def parse_args():
     Returns:
         argparse.Namespace: Parsed arguments including seq_len, num_heads,
             head_dim, batch_size, warmup/iteration counts, dtype, benchmark
-            mode (inference or train), and an optional output file path.
+            mode (inference or train), the results directory, and a
+            ``--print-only`` flag that disables JSON output.
     """
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description="Benchmark scaled_dot_product_attention: single GPU vs ShardTensor"
@@ -85,14 +94,37 @@ def parse_args():
         help="Benchmark mode: 'inference' (forward only) or 'train' (forward + backward)",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--output_file",
+        "--results_dir",
         type=str,
-        default=None,
-        help="Path to write JSON results file. If not set, results are only printed.",
+        default=str(DEFAULT_RESULTS_DIR),
+        help=(
+            "Directory in which to write the JSON results file. "
+            "The filename is auto-generated to match the format expected by "
+            "plot_scaling_results.py. Ignored when --print-only is set."
+        ),
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--print-only",
+        dest="print_only",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Print results to stdout only; do not write a JSON file.",
     )
     return parser.parse_args()
 
 
+def build_output_filename(
+    *, distributed: bool, world_size: int, mode: str, dtype: str, seq_len: int
+) -> str:
+    """Build a results filename compatible with ``plot_scaling_results.py``.
+
+    Format: ``<topology>_<mode>_<dtype>_seq<seq_len>.json`` where ``<topology>``
+    is ``single_gpu`` for non-distributed runs and ``distributed_<N>gpu``
+    otherwise.
+    """
+    topology = f"distributed_{world_size}gpu" if distributed else "single_gpu"
+    return f"{topology}_{mode}_{dtype}_seq{seq_len}.json"
+
+
 DTYPE_MAP = {
     "float32": torch.float32,
     "float16": torch.float16,
@@ -317,10 +349,20 @@ def main():
                 f"Max peak allocated (across {dm.world_size} ranks): {max_peak_allocated_across_ranks / mb:.2f} MB"
             )
 
-        if args.output_file:
-            with open(args.output_file, "w") as f:
+        if not args.print_only:
+            results_dir = Path(args.results_dir).expanduser()
+            results_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            fname = build_output_filename(
+                distributed=distributed,
+                world_size=dm.world_size,
+                mode=args.mode,
+                dtype=args.dtype,
+                seq_len=S,
+            )
+            output_path = results_dir / fname
+            with open(output_path, "w") as f:
                 json.dump(results, f, indent=2)
-            print(f"Results saved to {args.output_file}")
+            print(f"Results saved to {output_path}")
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":