Gautschi's Universal Software Launcher
Want to launch applications through ThinLinc, and think it is difficult to remember all the necessary Slurm options to launch things on compute nodes? There is a launcher for that!
Software¶
Conda vs Anaconda
On RCAC community clusters we deploy modules for both conda and anaconda. These are both separate distributions of the "conda" package manager. The conda module points towards the Miniforge distribution of conda (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge), while the anaconda module loads the official Anaconda, Inc. distribution of conda (https://www.anaconda.com/download).
Although these two distributions behave similarly, the components within them vary slightly:
VS Code on RCAC Resources
Visual Studio Code (VS Code or Code) is a popular IDE growing in usage in HPC. It is particularly useful for less-technical researchers (relative to say, Vim), because of it's remote development capabilities.