Steve Wallach

Steve Wallach ( * September 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American computer architect.

Wallach studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic University and the University of Pennsylvania (Master 's degree in electrical engineering). He also earned a Masters in Business Administration ( MBA) from Boston University.

In the 1970s he was at Data General, where he MV/8000 minicomputer was involved the development of Eclipse, who came in 1980 to the market and should maintain the company against the tough competition from DEC. He was Manager of Advanced Development at Data General. The development is described in the book by Tracy Kidder The soul of a new machine, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

In 1982 he founded with Bob Paluck Convex Computer in Richardson, which (similar to the vector processor computers from Cray Research, only cheaper) built a series of supercomputers. In 1995 the company was acquired by Hewlett- Packard (whose RISC processors they had used in their later computers). Wallach was the Chief Technology Officer ( CTO) and after the takeover by Hewlett Packard CTO of Large Systems Group, HP.

Later, he held various advisory functions (including the Advanced Scientific Computing Program of the DOE at Los Alamos National Laboratory and several venture capital firms ). In 2008 he was involved in the founding of Convey Computer, a company for the construction of flexible supercomputer based on FGAs.

1998/99 he was a visiting professor at Rice University. In 2008 he received the Seymour Cray Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.