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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.

Samba on Anvil

Samba on Anvil is installed from RPMs by unpacking the rpms in /apps/anvil/external/apps/samba. The reason for this is to avoid installing in the OS image which can have security implications. The QEMU installation on Anvil refers to this directory to load samba libraries when starting a Windows VM.