The "SSM environment" is build on SSM, Simple Software Management. This is the environment we are using on our UQAM servers.
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.
To get a list of all the available domaines and packages type:
s.list_ssm_shortcuts
Your own personal aliases, exports, s.ssmuse.dot etc. for interactive use will go into the file
~/.profile.d/.interactive_profile
which you will have to create if it does not exist already.