Boris Babaian
| Boris Babayan | |
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| Born |
December 20, 1933 Baku, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Awards |
Lenin Prize (1987) USSR State Prize (1974) |
Boris Artashesovich Babayan (Armenian: Բորիս Արտաշեսի Բաբայան; Russian: Борис Арташеcович Бабаян; born Baku, 20 December 1933) is an Armenian supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union.
Babayan was born in Baku, Soviet Union to an Armenian family. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science in 1971.
From 1956 to 1996, Babayan worked in the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, 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. Using these computers in 1978, ten years before commercial applications appeared in the West, the Soviet Union developed its missile systems and its nuclear and space programs.
A team headed by Babayan designed Elbrus-3 computer using an architecture named Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC).
From 1992 to 2004, Babayan held senior positions in the Moscow Center for SPARC Technology and Elbrus International. In these roles he led the development of Elbrus2000 (single-chip implementation of Elbrus-3) and Elbrus90micro (SPARC computer based on domestically developed microprocessor) projects.
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