srun can also be used to run a command (parallel or serial) on a set of resources from the front-end/login machine directly. This second use is mainly for testing purposes e.g. srun -N1 -n8 hostname # ...

3) The mvp2run script will not be used on slurm subclusters. The main functionality is superseded by 'srun'. See 'srun -h' for help on options for mpi jobs. Most MPI jobs should be fine using 'srun ...

sbatch is the entry point to the Slurm scheduler and reads a high-level Bash control script that specifies job parameters (number of nodes needed, memory per process, expected run times and so on) and ...