Overview :
Every month, Linux Journal helps readers stay on top of the fast-paced world of Linux, with tips for programing & networking, plus industry news, product reviews and gaming. Linux Journal was first published in April of 1994 by Phil Hughes and Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat. Hughes went on to continue publishing Linux Journal for over a decade and in 2006 turned the reins over to long-time Linux Journal employee Carlie Fairchild. Fairchild is the founder of Belltown Media, Inc., the current publisher of Linux Journal.
There aren't many numbers that put the US national debt to shame, but here's one: 1,100,000,000,000,000. What's that? That's how many floating-point operations per second the Roadrunner supercomputer at Las Alamos can perform. That's about 100 FLOPS per dollar of US debt (unfortunately, the debt is winning the second derivative race). Read the article about Roadrunner in this month's High Performance Computing issue of LJ. Along with that, find out how to program the Cell processor and how to use CUDA with your NVIDIA GPU. Also in this issue: Mr HandS (aka Kyle Rankin) gives us a few tips on using Compiz, Chef Marcel shows you how to get blogging off your plate quicker, Mick Bauer talks about Samba security, Dan Sawyer interviews Cory Doctrow and Doc talks about how information technology can affect democracy and fix the national debt (just kidding about that last part). That and more for your reading pleasure in this month's Linux Journal.
Featured Contents :
- 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
In Every Issue :
- From the Editor
- Letters
- upFRONT
- New Products
- New Projects
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