Visual Studio Code is a freeware source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. 

Features:

1. Installation without administrator privilege.
2. Access remote file systems through ssh.
3. And more

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Extensions can be added through Ctrl+shift+x.

1. User can adjust language features, such as python or R,  
2. User can choose editor flavors, such as vim or emacs.
3. There are two steps for ssh remote file access after adding the remote-ssh extenstion
   1. Press function key to connect to a remote host: F1 -> remote-ssh: connect to host, select the host to ssh to.
   2. Open file 

Accessing FRCE GPU nodes from your VS Code desktop client.

After accessing FRCE from remote connection, you can use terminal to request an interactive session to a GPU node.

If step-by-step debugging is needed, you will have to bring a VNC session from a GPU node.