Stata SE is an integrated statistical package for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. More than just a statistical package, Stata is also a full data-management system with complete statistical and graphical capabilities. It features both X-window and text user interfaces.

Stata related:

How to choose between SE, IC and MP editions?
Most users will likely only need IC. All versions have the same statistical functionality but differ in the size of their data structures.

How does one send a Stata batch job to the cluster compute nodes?
Make a stata do file with stata commands. To send:

> sbatch --wrap="stata -b your_filename.do"

How to run stata interactively:

bash-4.1$ srun --pty --x11=first bash

bash-4.1$ module load stata/13

bash-4.1$ xstata

What are the command line arguments to Stata?
To find out:

> srun --pty --x11=first -p interactive stata -help

How can Stata use parallel computing?
Stata can not use multiple nodes but stata-mp is able to use multi-cores. See http://www.stata.com/statamp/statamp.pdf for a listing of which Stata functions work well with multi-cores.

$module load stata/13
$srun --pty -c 8 -p interactive stata-mp

or to submit a batch job

$sbatch --time=12:00:00 -c 8 --wrap="stata-mp -b filename.do"