Steven L. Scott

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Steven L. Scott is an American computer designer. He is a senior engineer at Cray Inc.

Scott received his PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Wisconsin with James R. Goodman in 1992 and then went to Cray Research. He was one of the architects of the Cray T3E multiprocessor computer and the main architect of the GigaRing network in the Cray computers in the late 1990s. He was also the main architect of the Cray X1 / X1E supercomputer and the Black Widow system at Cray. He also designed the router in Cray's Red Storm supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories and in the Cray XT3 MPP. He also led the Cray Cascade project.

He holds 15 patents (2005) and is co-editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

In 2005 he received the Seymour Cray Award and the Maurice Wilkes Award from the ACM.

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