Boris Babaian

Boris Artashesovich Babaian (Russian: Борис Арташеcович Бабаян) ( born Baku, 20 December 1933), an ethnic Armenian, is notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union.

Babaian and his team built their first computers during the 1950s. In the 1970s, as chief architect he produced 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 series of Elbrus computers have been produced. For example, the Elbrus-3 was built using an architecture is called Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC).

Babaian was awarded the two highest honors in the former Soviet Union: the USSR State Prize for Achievement in 1974 in the field of computer-aided design, and the Lenin Prize in 1987 for the Elbrus-2 supercomputer.

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