Features

• The Roadrunner Supercomputer: a Petaflop's No Problem  by James Gray
  IBM and Los Alamos National Lab teamed up to build the world's fastest supercomputer.
  
• Massively Parallel Linux Laptops, Workstations and Clusters with CUDA  by Robert Farber
  Unleash the GPU within!
  
• Increase Performance, Reliability and Capacity with Software RAID  by Will Reese
  Put those extra hard drives to work.
  
• Overcoming the Challenges of Developing Applications for the Cell Processor  by Chris Gottbrath
  Introducing techniques for troubleshooting programs written for the Cell processor.
  

Indepth

• Cory Doctorow—Linux Guru?  by Dan Sawyer
  Cory Doctorow on DRM, his new novel and more.
  
• How We Should Program GPGPUs  by Michael Wolfe
  Porting to GPUs without heroic programming effort.
  
• Use Python for Scientific Computing  by Joey Bernard
  Leverage the benefits of Python for scientific computing.
  

Columns

• Shawn Powers' Current_Issue.tar.gz   Sometimes, Fast Just Isn't Enough  
  
• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Book Roundup  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Warp-Speed Blogging  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Pushing Your Message Out to Twitter  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Samba Security, Part I  by Mick Bauer
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Memories of the Way Windows Were  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Lincoln and Whitman's Unfinished Business  
  

Reviews

• Tracking Your Business Finances with NolaPro  by Mike Diehl
  
• The Popcorn Hour A-100  by Daniel Bartholomew
  

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