Using VSCodium on Bianca

VSCodium running on Bianca

Introduction

There are multiple IDEs on Bianca, among other VSCodium. Here we discuss how to run VSCodium on Bianca.

VSCodium is the community edition of Visual Studio Code and can be used for software development in many languages.

What is an IDE?

See the page on IDEs.

In this session, we show how to use VSCodium on Bianca, using Bianca's remote desktop environment.

Forgot how to login to a remote desktop environment?

See the 'Logging in to Bianca' page.

As VSCodium is a resource-heavy program, it must be run on an interactive node.

Procedure to start VSCodium

Below is a step-by-step procedure to start RStudio. This procedure is also demonstrated in this YouTube video.

1. Get within SUNET

Forgot how to get within SUNET?

See the 'get inside the university networks' page here

2. Start the Bianca remote desktop environment

Forgot how to start Bianca's remote desktop environment?

See the 'Logging in to Bianca' page.

3. Start an interactive session

Within the Bianca remote desktop environment, start a terminal. Within that terminal, start an interactive session with 1 core.

Forgot how to start an interactive node?

See the 'Starting an interactive node' page.

Spoiler: use:

interactive -A sens2023598 -n 1 -t 8:00:00

4. Load the modules needed

VSCodium needs the VSCodium/latest module.

In the terminal of the interactive session, do:

module load VSCodium/latest`

5. Start VSCodium

With the modules loaded, in that same terminal, start VSCodium:

code

VSCodium starts up quickly.

How does VSCodium look on Bianca?