Boris Artashesovich Babayan (russian: Борис Арташеcович Бабаян; hy, Բորիս Արտաշեսի Բաբայան; born Baku, 20 December 1933) is a

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and

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n computer scientist of

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descent, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia.

Biography

Babayan was born in Baku,

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to an

family. He graduated from the

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares speciali ...

in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science in 1971. From 1956 to 1996, Babayan worked in the

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, where he eventually became chief of the hardware and software division. Babayan and his team built their first computers during the 1950s. In the 1970s, being one of 15 deputies of chief architect V. S. Burtsev, he worked on the first superscalar computer, the Elbrus-1 and programming language

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developed its missile systems and its nuclear and space programs. A team headed by Babayan designed Elbrus-3 computer using an architecture named

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(EPIC). From 1992 to 2004, Babayan held senior positions in the Moscow Center for SPARC Technology (MCST) and Elbrus International. In these roles he led the development of

Elbrus 2000 The Elbrus 2000, E2K (russian: Эльбрус 2000) is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC. It supports two instruction set architectures (ISA): * Elbrus VLIW ...

(single-chip implementation of Elbrus-3) and Elbrus90micro (

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computer based on domestically developed microprocessor) projects. Since August 2004, Babayan is the Director of Architecture for the Software and Solutions Group in Intel Corporation and scientific advisor of the Intel R&D center in

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. He leads efforts in such areas as compilers, binary translation and security technologies. He became the second European holding the Intel Fellow title (after Norwegian, Tryggve Fossum). Babayan was awarded the two highest honors in the former Soviet Union: the

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for his achievements in 1974 in the field of computer-aided design, and the Lenin Prize in 1987 for the Elbrus-2 supercomputer design. Since 1984, he has been a corresponding member of the

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(later -

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

). , he serves as a professor at the

and holds the Microprocessor Technology chair in Moscow based R&D center of Intel Corporation.

References

External links

Biography
Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group. Director, Architecture
Brief biography (in Russian)Babayan receives Intel Fellow title (in Russian)The Elbrus-2: a Soviet-era high performance computer
– history of the Elbrus project with an 18-minute video interview from the Computer History Museum oral history collection {{DEFAULTSORT:Babayan, Boris 1933 births Living people Engineers from Baku Computer designers Intel people Armenian inventors Armenian scientists Russian computer scientists Russian inventors Soviet computer scientists