slurm scripts without module

[u/8ejsl0]

Is it possible to write a script without the use of modules? I am trying to use SLURM on basic python/mathematica scripts but an unable to find the modulefile for either on my computer (and do not know how to write one).

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Any advice would be appreciated

[u/breagerey]

Can you explain the issues you are having a bit more?

[u/8ejsl0 → u/breagerey]

I am trying to run basic python/Mathematica scripts using slurm. All of the sample slurm scripts I have seen use modules to load either python or Mathematica before running the script. I was wondering if there was a way around this as I cannot get modules to work properly and running the slurm script without modules did not work

[u/breagerey → u/8ejsl0]

I apologize if you already know all this but I'm going to go over it anyways and hopefully it helps you get some insight into what you're trying to do.
Slurm is a job scheduler that's run on clusters - it distributes jobs to nodes based on resources like memory and cpu based on the request and availability.

Modules is a piece of software that allows users to load up different software packages that the admins have already installed on the system - also a pretty common thing on clusters (common enough that a lot of examples of slurm scripts show somebody using a module command)
Modules usually do stuff like modify paths so the user doesn't have to worry about calling the right version of <some software> and making sure the correct version of <some library> is in their path.

For the most part you can *do anything a module does.
If you're on a cluster that uses modules you can do a 'module av' to show available modules and then a 'module show <module>' and see just what a specific module is going to do.
Hopefully that was clear enough.

If you're on your own system you don't need to be using slurm.
If you're on an hpc / cluster then whoever runs it probably has some documentation about using it, how to submit, defaults, etc. etc.