Why Linux in Science ? (4)

Linux also fully supports and comes with a free version of the TeX/LaTeX publishing package to generate publication ready output multi-user network ready Linux offers the ability for researchers to work on more powerful compute engines located anywhere on a campus network, or anywhere else easy access to hardware level control for data collection and machine control Linux supports clustering of several computers into clusters. The systems can used MPI or PVM to create a parallel computer that can distribute a single task across a large number of computers to effectively give a single powerful "virtual" computer.