Features

• HA-OSCAR: the Birth of Highly Available OSCAR  by Ibrahim Haddad, Chokchai Leangsuksun and Stephen L. Scott
  If a single point of failure can make hundreds of cluster nodes useless, you have a problem. We have the solution.
  
• Cluster Hardware Torture Tests  by John Goebel
  Those metal pizza boxes may look harmless, but the wrong ones will make your users angry and your electrician rich.
  
• Sequencing the SARS Virus  by Martin Krzywinski and Yaron Butterfield
  Linux on PC hardware formed the basis for an infrastructure to handle huge volumes of genetic data.
  
• TALOSS (Three-Dimensional Advanced Localization Observation Submarine Software)  by Douglas B. Maxwell and Richard Shell
  An experimental US Navy program combines multiple sources of information into one 3-D display.
  
• My Other Computer Is a Supercomputer  by Steve Jones
  You need to start running protein folding jobs—when?
  

Indepth

• 2003 Readers' Choice Awards  by Heather Mead
  You voted. We counted. You're waiting.
  
• Introducing Scribus  by Peter Linnell
  Take desktop publishing off the shrinking list of applications Linux doesn't have, and create press-ready documents with a new GPL program.
  

Embedded

• Writing Secure Programs  by Cal Erickson
  If you don't have time to do it right, where will you get the time to issue a security warning and a patch—or worse, a device recall?
  

Toolbox

• Kernel Korner   The New Work Queue Interface in the 2.6 Kernel  by Robert Love
  
• At the Forge   Server Migration and Disasters  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Diners, Start Your Processors  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Secure Mail with LDAP and IMAP, Part I  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• EOF   Extreme Linux: Not All that Far Out There  by Jason Pettit
  

Reviews

• OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit  by Kenneth Wehr
  

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