[Speakers] Don Becker...

[Sam Ockman]

Steve...

Hope all is well...How are you enjoying being speaker coordinator?  I
was hoping I could get someone on the schedule.

Don Becker, the inventor of Beowulf, as well as the author of many of
the linux networking drivers would like to speak on "High Performance
Computing with Scyld Beowulf."  

Here's his Bio...


Donald J. Becker is known throughout the international community of
operating-system developers for his contributions to networking
software. In addition, Becker was one of the founders of the Beowulf
effort, which is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance
cluster computing.  He is the CTO of Scyld, which was recently
acquired by Penguin Computing.

Becker's work in parallel and distributed computing began in 1983 at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Real Time Systems
group, where he designed performance monitoring hardware and system
software as a participant in the MIT Concert Multiprocessor project.
>From 1990 to 1994 he was on the research staff of the Institute for
Defense Analyses Supercomputing Research Center, working on parallel
compilers, specialized computational techniques, and various
networking projects.

In early 1994 Becker joined USRA-CESDIS at the Goddard Space Flight
Center to start the Beowulf Parallel Workstation project. While at
CESDIS, he not only lead the Beowulf team but also continued to
contribute extensively to the Linux kernel, most visibly in providing
very broad support for networking devices.

Becker is a co-author of How To Build a Beowulf: A guide to the
Implementation and Application of PC Clusters (MIT Press, 1999) and a
co-editor of the Extreme.Linux CD-ROM, the first packaged Beowulf
software distribution. With colleagues from the California Institute
of Technology (Cal Tech) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Becker was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 1997 Gordon Bell
Prize for Price/Performance. In 1999 Becker received the Dr. Dobb's
Excellence in Programming Award, which is presented annually to
individuals who, "in the spirit of innovation and cooperation, have
made significant contributions to the advancement of software
development."