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The same SSM environment is available on Compute Canada clusters but you have to do a little "setup" once.
Using the SSM environment means one can subscribes to certain domaines and packages using s.ssmuse.dot to aquire access to certain directories, scripts, binaries, etc.. This includes for example all tools to treat RPN files and the CRCM5 model itself.
In general '. s.ssmuse.dot ...' will add directories to your $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc. and set some environment variables.
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