diff --git a/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm.skipif b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm.skipif
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..38a2a26c2c93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm.skipif
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import os
+
+launcher = os.getenv('CHPL_LAUNCHER', 'none')
+if 'slurm' not in launcher:
+  print("True")
+else:
+  print("False")
diff --git a/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.chpl b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.chpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4a6918716042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.chpl
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+config const numTasks = 2;
+for l in Locales do
+  on l do
+    for tid in 0..#numTasks do
+      writeln("Hello from task", tid, "on locale", here.id, sep=" ");
diff --git a/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.good b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.good
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..109c88964be9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.good
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Hello from task 0 on locale 0
+Hello from task 1 on locale 0
+Hello from task 0 on locale 1
+Hello from task 1 on locale 1
diff --git a/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.notest b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.notest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4078374a8f55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/hello.notest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Tested by the sub_test script
diff --git a/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/sub_test b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/sub_test
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..5d08052fe24d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/runtime/configMatters/launch/slurm/sub_test
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import os
+import subprocess as sp
+import sys
+
+def main():
+    print("[Starting subtest]")
+    d = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+    chpl_home = os.getenv("CHPL_HOME")
+    if chpl_home is None:
+        print("[Error: CHPL_HOME not set]")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    bin_subdir=sp.check_output([os.path.join(chpl_home, "util", "chplenv", "chpl_bin_subdir.py")], encoding='utf-8').strip()
+    chpl = os.path.join(chpl_home, "bin", bin_subdir, "chpl")
+
+    # force this test to use sbatch
+    os.environ["CHPL_LAUNCHER_USE_SBATCH"] = "true"
+
+    # compile hello.chpl and run it using chpl_launchcmd
+    ret = sp.call([chpl, "-o", "hello", "hello.chpl"])
+    if ret != 0:
+        print("[Error compiling hello.chpl]")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    launchcmd = os.path.join(chpl_home, "util", "test", "chpl_launchcmd.py")
+    outfile = os.path.join(d, "hello.exec.tmp")
+    with open(outfile, "w") as f:
+        ret = sp.call([launchcmd, "./hello", "-nl", "2"], stdout=f, stderr=sp.STDOUT)
+    if ret != 0:
+        print("[Error running hello.chpl]")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    # check that the output is as expected
+    goodfile = os.path.join(d, "hello.good")
+    ret = sp.call(["diff", goodfile, outfile])
+    if ret != 0:
+        print("[Error matching good file]")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    print("[Success matching hello.chpl output]")
+
+    print("[Finished subtest {}]".format(d))
+
+def cleanup(ret):
+    def rm(file):
+        try:
+            os.unlink(file)
+        except:
+            pass
+    
+    rm("hello")
+    # only delete good file on success
+    if ret == 0:
+        rm("hello.exec.tmp")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ret = main()
+    cleanup(ret)
+
+    sys.exit(ret)
diff --git a/util/cron/test-hpe-cray-ex-ofi.bash b/util/cron/test-hpe-cray-ex-ofi.bash
index a06d7ec4531f..d2c2ef28c459 100755
--- a/util/cron/test-hpe-cray-ex-ofi.bash
+++ b/util/cron/test-hpe-cray-ex-ofi.bash
@@ -11,4 +11,9 @@ export CHPL_NIGHTLY_TEST_CONFIG_NAME="hpe-cray-ex-ofi"
 export CHPL_RT_COMM_OFI_EXPECTED_PROVIDER="cxi"
 export CHPL_RT_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=16g
 
-$UTIL_CRON_DIR/nightly -cron -examples -blog ${nightly_args}
+
+# test a small subset of all tests due to limited resources
+# ideally, we should run the whole suite
+export CHPL_NIGHTLY_TEST_DIRS="release/examples/ runtime/configMatters/ multilocale/"
+
+$UTIL_CRON_DIR/nightly -cron -blog ${nightly_args}