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Space Technology Hall of Fame: Beowulf Computing Clusters

Originally aired on: July 6, 2022

The Space Technology Hall of Fame honors individuals, organizations, and companies for their contributions that increase public awareness for space exploration and innovation. In 2022, Space Foundation inducted Beowulf Computing Clusters to this prestigious group of pioneers and trailblazers. Discover how this company revolutionized our computer systems worldwide.

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Jim Fischer first came to the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1971 through a cooperative work study program while an engineering undergraduate at North Carolina State University. He started full time at Goddard in 1974, hired into a group doing pioneering work in the, at that time, nonexistent field of massively parallel computing, and by 1983 was group lead. His group's Massively Parallel Processor (manufactured under contract by Goodyear Aerospace Corporation and made operational at Goddard in 1985) and first Beowulf Linux cluster (assembled at Goddard in 1994) each led to major advances in how supercomputing was done worldwide and both are now in museum collections.

Dr. James Fischer

Thomas Sterling is a Full Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University (IU) serving as Director of the AI Computing Systems Laboratory at IU’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Since receiving his Ph.D from MIT as a Hertz Fellow in 1984, Dr. Sterling has engaged in applied research in parallel computing system structures, semantics, and operation in industry, government labs, and academia. Professional affiliations have included Harris Corp., IDA Supercomputing Research Center, NASA (GSFC, JPL), Un. of Maryland, Caltech, and LSU. Dr. Sterling is best known as the "father of Beowulf" for his pioneering research in commodity/Linux cluster computing for which he shared the Gordon Bell Prize in 1997.

Dr. Thomas Sterling

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