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Improving Application Performance on HPC Systems with Process Synchronization

By Paul Terry 
Hey, cluster node, don't work on that housekeeping task right now—we're all waiting for you to finish your part of the MPI job! Here's a scheduling policy designed for cluster efficiency. more>>

OSCAR and Bioinformatics

By Bernard Li 
With new cluster deployment and management tools, you can set up a 64-node cluster in an hour, then put it to work on your research. more>>
POV-Ray

Scientific Visualizations with POV-Ray

By Leigh Orf 
With a little work, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) can be adapted to create stunning three-dimensional imagery from floating-point scientific data files. more>>
Rock Abrasion Tool

Driving the Mars Rovers

By Frank Hartman 
Linux is the desktop platform for the team driving NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. more>>
cluster

Clusters for Nothing and Nodes for Free

By Alexander Perry 
When the users are away, your company's legacy desktop systems can become a powerful temporary Linux cluster. more>>
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Security Distribution for Linux Clusters

By Ibrahim Haddad 
Here are the kernel mechanisms used in DSM to embed security information into IP messages in a transparent way. more>>
ILM servers

The Power of the Incredible Hulk—the ILM Linux Death Star

By Robin Rowe 
The story in the July 2002 issue of Linux Journal about the Linux desktop and renderfarm conversion at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) drew record interest from readers. Linux has advanced at ILM in the past year, meeting the special challenges ILM faced in creating the movie The Hulk (release June 2003). more>>
Beowulf

The Beowulf Evolution

By Glen Otero Ferri 
Second-generation Beowulf clusters offer single-process I/O space, thin slave nodes, GUI utilities and more for adaptability and manageability. more>>
Yoda - ILM rendering

Industrial Light and Magic

By Robin Rowe 
Discussing the move to Linux on ILM's renderfarm, with speed and stability comes responsibility. more>>
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