Boris Babaian

Boris Babayan Artaschessowitsch (Russian Борис Арташеcович Бабаян, English transcription Babayan or Babaian; * December 20, 1933 in Baku ) is an Armenian computer architect, known for supercomputing developments in the former Soviet Union ( Elbrus computer).

Babayan earned his doctorate in 1964 and his habilitation in 1972 (Russian doctorate ). He worked from 1956 to 1996 at the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology ( IPMCE ), where he was most recently head of the hardware and software department. There he was in the 1970s, the architect of the first superscalar computer ( about ten years before the first came on the market in the West), the supercomputer Elbrus -1 ( 1978). It followed the Elbrus -2 and Elbrus -3 ( with Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing, EPIC). The overall management of the development on IPMCE had Vsevolod Sergeyevich Burtsev.

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

In 2004 he went to Intel and Intel was a Fellow and Director of Architecture of the software and services group. In this capacity, he directs the Intel compiler technologies for server products, monitors their portability and security. In addition, he is responsible and consultants of the Intel research center in Moscow for contacts with the Russian computer science scientists. He was from 1996 to 2004 professor of computer science at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

In 1974 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the development of CAD systems, in 1982 the Order of the October Revolution ( for Elbrus 1 ), 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).