Editing Donald Becker

{{Short description|American software developer}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2012}}
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'''Donald Becker''' is an American [[programmer|computer programmer]] who wrote [[Ethernet]] drivers for the [[Linux]] operating system.<ref name="Yaghmour2003">{{cite book|last=Yaghmour|first=Karim|title=Building Embedded Linux Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnFdWfJAK9wC&pg=PT117|accessdate=1 August 2012|date=2003-04-29|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=9780596002220|pages=117–}}</ref> 

Becker, in collaboration with [[Thomas Sterling (computing)|Thomas Sterling]], created the  [[Beowulf cluster|Beowulf clustering]] software while at [[NASA]], to connect many inexpensive PCs to solve complex math problems typically reserved for classic [[supercomputer]]s. For this work, Becker received the [[Gordon Bell Prize]] in 1997. 

Becker became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Scyld Computer Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Penguin Computing, a developer and supplier of Beowulf clusters.

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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030924231346/http://www.scyld.com/ Scyld Computer Corporation]

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