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CTO, Penguin Computing.
Donald is an internationally recognized operating system developer and the original inventor of the Beowulf Linux cluster. He is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software and as the driving force behind beowulf.org.
Don's work in parallel and distributed computing began in 1983 at MIT's Real Time Systems group. He has contributed to the Linux kernel since 1992, and is largely responsible for Linux's broad support of network adapters. In 1994 he moved to the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to start the Beowulf Parallel Workstation project. In 1999 he founded Scyld Computing and led the development of the next-generation Beowulf cluster operating system, which is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance cluster computing.
He is the co-author of How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters. With colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 1997 Gordon Bell Prize for Price/Performance. Don holds a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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