Now Becker is the CTO of Scyld Software and its parent company, Penguin Computing Inc. In 1994, he helped launch NASA’s Beowulf Project which demonstrated that $50,000 of commodity hardware, clustered together, could equal the performance of a $1 million Cray supercomputer. For his work, he received the Gordon Bell Prize from the IEEE Computer Society in 1997.
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