[cover127.png] Linux Journal Issue #127/November 2004 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Features OSCAR for Bioinformatics Clusters 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 Departments From the Editor Letters upFRONT New Products Advertisers Index