Features

The Roadrunner Supercomputer: a Petaflop's No Problem  by James Gray

IBM and Los Alamos National Lab teamed up to build the world's fastest supercomputer.

Massively Parallel Linux Laptops, Workstations and Clusters with CUDA  by Robert Farber

Unleash the GPU within!

Increase Performance, Reliability and Capacity with Software RAID  by Will Reese

Put those extra hard drives to work.

Overcoming the Challenges of Developing Applications for the Cell Processor  by Chris Gottbrath

Introducing techniques for troubleshooting programs written for the Cell processor.

Indepth

Cory Doctorow—Linux Guru?  by Dan Sawyer

Cory Doctorow on DRM, his new novel and more.

How We Should Program GPGPUs  by Michael Wolfe

Porting to GPUs without heroic programming effort.

Use Python for Scientific Computing  by Joey Bernard

Leverage the benefits of Python for scientific computing.

Columns

Shawn Powers' Current_Issue.tar.gz   Sometimes, Fast Just Isn't Enough  

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Book Roundup  

Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Warp-Speed Blogging  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Pushing Your Message Out to Twitter  

Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Samba Security, Part I  by Mick Bauer

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Memories of the Way Windows Were  

Doc Searls' EOF   Lincoln and Whitman's Unfinished Business  

Reviews

Tracking Your Business Finances with NolaPro  by Mike Diehl

The Popcorn Hour A-100  by Daniel Bartholomew

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