Dear students,
some of you approached me to ask for the "right" SSH client and/or editor on Windows to do the PTfS exercises and the CAM project.
There is no general advise we can give other than "use what feels most natural to you and allows you to be efficient".
- Many students like to work with VS Code as an editor and client as you can open an ssh connection directly from there and it lets you combine terminal usage with a visual editor. Please refer to https://doc.nhr.fau.de/access/ssh-vscode/ for more information.
- You can also find a documentation for MobaXTerm on our website: https://doc.nhr.fau.de/access/ssh-mobaxterm/
For editing files, you'd need to opt for any terminal-based editor like vim (Tutorial here), emacs (Tutorial here), or nano (Tutorial here) - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a linux distro on your local Windows computer and you can simply ssh to our HPC systems from there. For editing, you'd have the same terminal-based solutions as for MobaXTerm.
- As you might have seen in our bash intro, JupyterHub can also provide you with a connection to the cluster and you can edit files inside of it: https://doc.nhr.fau.de/access/jupyterhub/
Feel free to extend this list by replying to this forum entry if you want to share your favorite SSH client or editor with your fellow students.
Best,
Jan