Using VSCodium on Rackham

VSCodium on another cluster, as VSCodium on Rackham fails

VSCodium fails, use VSCode instead

The approach below will fail (note that using VSCodium on Bianca does work).

Instead, go to the page Using VSCode on Rackham

Introduction

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 Rackham, using Rackham's remote desktop environment.

Forgot how to login to a remote desktop environment?

See the 'Logging in to Rackham' page.

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

Procedure to start VSCodium

1. Start the Rackham remote desktop environment

Forgot how to start Rackham's remote desktop environment?

See the 'Logging in to Rackham' page.

2. Start an interactive session

Within the Rackham 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 uppmax2023-2-25

3. Load the modules needed

VSCodium needs the VSCodium/latest module.

In the terminal of the interactive session, do:

module load VSCodium/latest`

4. Start VSCodium

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

code

VSCodium will give an error?

How does the VSCodium error look on Rackham?