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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