Boris Artaschessowitsch Babajan

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Boris Babajan

Boris Artaschessowitsch Babajan ( Russian Борис Арташесович Бабаян , English transcription Babayan or Babaian ; born December 20, 1933 in Baku ) is an Armenian-born computer architect, known for supercomputer developments in the Soviet Union (Elbrus Computer).

Babajan received his doctorate in 1964 and completed his habilitation in 1972 ( Russian doctorate ). From 1956 to 1996 he worked at the Lebedev Institute for Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology (IPMCE), where he was most recently head of the hardware and software department. There he was the architect of the first superscalar computer in the 1970s (around ten years before the first came on the market in the West), the Elbrus-1 supercomputer (1978). The Elbrus-2 and Elbrus-3 followed (with Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing , EPIC). Vsevolod Sergejewitsch Burzew was in charge of development at the IPMCE .

From 1992 to 2004 he was a senior scientist at the Moscow Center for SPARC Technology (a spin-off from IMPCE) and Elbrus International, where he led the development of the Elbrus 2000 (a realization of the Elbrus-3 on a chip) and the Elbrus90micro (SPARC -Based).

In 2004 he joined Intel and became an Intel Fellow and Director of Architecture for the Software and Services Group. In this role, he heads the compiler technologies for server products at Intel and monitors their portability and security. He is also responsible for contacts with Russian computer science scientists and a consultant for the Intel Research Center in Moscow. From 1996 to 2004 he was professor of computer science at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology .

In 1974 he received the State Prize of the USSR for the development of CAD systems, in 1982 the Order of the October Revolution (for Elbrus 1), in 1972 the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and in 1987 the Lenin Prize (for Elbrus 2). He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1984).

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