Features

OSCAR and Bioinformatics  by Bernard Li

Use the software that the big labs use, and put a decade of Linux cluster management experience to work for you.

Scientific Visualizations with Pov-Ray  by Leigh Orf

Here's how a much-needed patch turned the popular rendering package into a scientific power tool.

Improving Application Performance on HPC Systems with Process Synchronization  by Paul Terry, Amar Shan and Pentti Huttunen

It's a simple concept that gives big results. A team from Cray takes a leap forward in the struggle to keep all processors in the cluster occupied efficiently.

Indepth

Readers' Choice 2004  by Heather Mead

Evolution or mutt? Vim or Kate? Old school or eye candy? And what's your favorite beverage for coding sessions? Heather has the answers.

MyHDL: a Python-Based Hardware Description Language  by Jan Decaluwe

Design hardware in Python? Why not? New features of the language are making it a simple, readable choice for new hardware ideas.

Revision Control with Arch: Introduction to Arch  by Nick Moffitt

Get started with a new, flexible working style that's convenient for far-flung projects and hacking on your laptop.

Embedded

Linux and RTAI for Building Automation  by Andres Benitez and Vicente Gonzales

Simple commodity units and Linux do the work of a big expensive system. Sounds familiar, but we're talking about air conditioning.

Toolbox

At the Forge   Aggregating with Atom  by Reuven M. Lerner

Kernel Korner   AEM: a Scalable and Native Event Mechanism for Linux  by Frédéric Rossi

Cooking with Linux   Performing at the Speed of Light  by Marcel Gagné

Paranoid Penguin   Linux Filesystem Security, Part II  by Mick Bauer

Columns

Linux for Suits   We're Going to Be a 90% Linux Shop  by Doc Searls

EOF   No 2.7 Kernel?  by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Reviews

GumStix WS200X  by Michael Boerner

Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting  by Marco Fioretti

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