a Bash RC is used so you do not need to install modules into your user - (i.e. don't install anaconda) The different modules have different dependencies that will need to be loaded before others can be loaded You will need to write your bashrc to ~/.bashrc To find the dependencies, use the commands: module whatis for example: module load python-3.5.5 You want to load, at the very least, python-3.5.2, and slurm-14.11.8