Linux Journal Contents #127, November 2004

by Staff

on November 1, 2004

Linux Journal Issue #127/November 2004

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.

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.

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.

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