diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f087cd689..3bd3d6a61 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -28,4 +28,7 @@
 *.app
 *~
 *.pyc
-test_allreduce
\ No newline at end of file
+*.mpi
+*.exe
+*.txt
+*tmp*
diff --git a/toolkit/.gitignore b/toolkit/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f8241b66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+kmeans
+*.mpi