Contributing Editor

Paul Barry

Paul has lectured since 1997 within the Department of Computing & Networking, at the Institute of Technology, Carlow, in Ireland. Prior to that, Paul worked for 10 years within the IT industry in various software development and managerial roles, both in Ireland and Canada.

Paul has a B.Sc. in Computing (Information Systems) from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown and an M.Sc. in Computing from the Institute of Technology, Sligo.

Paul has authored two books: Programming the Network with Perl (2002) and Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Perl (2004), which he co-wrote with Dr. Michael Moorhouse. Both books are published by Wiley.

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From the Magazine

November 2008, #175

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.

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