Vsevolod Sergeevich Burtsev
Academician of RAS

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Vsevolod Sergeevich Burtsev was born in Moscow, Russia, on February 11, 1927. He graduated from the Moscow Energetic Institute in 1951 and received his Ph.D. degree in computer Sciences from Institute of Precise Mechanic and Computer Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1962.

From 1950 to 1986 he was with the Institute Precise Mechanic and Computer Technology where he held the position of Director from 1973 to 1984.

In 1976 he was elected a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and since 1992 he is a full member (Academician) of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vsevolod .S. Burtsev had headed the creation of supercomputers and computer complexes for control in real-time systems in Russia. He was the Main constructor of universal multipurpose complex ELBRUS-2.

At the moment Vsevolod S. Burtsev is the Director of Institute for High-Performance Computer Systems.

He is Lenin and State prizes winner.

Main stages of creative activity

Vsevolod Sergeevitch Burtsev was born in Moscow, Russia, on February 11, 1927.

He graduated from the Moscow Energetic Institute in 1951 and received his Ph.D. degree in computer sciences from the Institute Mechanics and Computer Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1962.

From 1950 to 1986 he was with the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Technology where he held the position of Director from 1973 to 1984.

In 1976 he was elected as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and since 1992 he is a full member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

At present, Vsevolod Sergeevich Burtsev is Director of the Scientific Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is one of the multi-purpose high-performance computers and computer systems in Russia.

Having started his activity under guidance of the outstanding Soviet Academician S.A.Lebedev, V.S. Burtsev participated as one of leading designers in creating the control system of the first Soviet high-speed electronic computer BESM AN SU. For this work he was rewarded with the Order of Lenin.

Under his leadership and direct participation there were carried out scientific investigations, the most of which had a remarkable impact on theory and practice and were applied in industry.

1953-1956. The development of the principles of the selecting and digitizing the radar signal. For the first time in the Soviet Union data were read out of the entered into a computer. An experimental specialized computer "Diana" was created for the purposes of selecting and digitizing targeting data taken from a circular scanning radar. There was successfully run an experiment on simultaneously tracking several targets by means of a computer according to the radar data.

1956-1961. The development of principles of constructing computing means for the purposes of ballistic missile defense (BMD) and the creation of a high performance computer system for high-quality automatic control of complex, far-spaced objects operating in real time scale.
To this end, there was designed put into series production the computer M-40 in which principles of paralleling the computational process by hardware first proposed: all the main components of the computer (arithmetic unit, control unit, RAM, external memory control unit, etc.) had off-line control systems and operated in parallel. A principle of multiplexor channel was used allowing for receipt and supply of information in ten asynchronously operating directions with the total throughput of 1 million bit/s, without slowing down the computational process.

1961-1968. The development of principles of constructing high-performance control and information systems for BMD objects and space operations control center operating in real time scale. The computers put into series production and being the main component of these computing systems were characterized by a high degree of truth of output information. To raise the reliability of these systems there was first developed and put into the principle of hardware redundancy of multicomputer systems for the case of malfunction and fail, based on the entire hardware control of computing means. The new methods for controlling external objects first embodied in these computers provided the creation of high reliable multicomputer systems operating on the shared field of external storage devices. In these computers an address-free instruction system was first introduced and a simultaneous operation of two processors sharing a single RAM was realized. High reliable computer systems based on these computers showed themselves well in operation.

1969-1972. Being the General Designer, V.S.Burtsev implemented the first computer of third generation for a transportable antiaircraft system put into series production. This was a three-processor computer built according to the mobile principle. Each mobile (processor, memory, peripheral control unit) was entirely controlled by hardware whereby providing for automatic sliding redundancy on the level of mobiles in the case of their malfunction and fail, practically without interrupting the computational process.

1973-1985. Being the General Designer of the multiprocessor computer system (MCS) "Elbrus-1" and "Elbrus-2" V.S.Burtsev, along with the fundamental problems of circuit engineering, paid great attention to computer base elements, design and technology problems, basic problems of the cooling system, problem of enlarging the integration of base elements as well as problems of computer-aided design. In process of creating MCS "Elbrus-2" he initiated and directly participated in implementing new high-speed integrated circuits, high-frequency group connectors, microcables, precision multilayer printed boards.

1980. The works on creating MCS "Elbrus-1" with total processing rate of 15 million oper/s were finished.

1985. The governmental tests of the ten-processor MCS "Elbrus-2" of processing rate 125 million oper/s were successfully finished. The both systems were put into series production. When creating these systems, basic problems of constructing multi-purpose processors of utmost performance were solved. Therefore, a dynamic allocation of resources of very fast memory of execution units and a number of other technical solutions, used in circuit engineering for the first time, allowed the performance of each processors to become several times as more. To provide a further increase in the performance of the system, fundamental problems of building multiprocessor systems were solved such as elimination of mutual impact of the modules on the total performance, provision of depersonalized operation of modules and their clocking.

1986-1992. There was developed a nontraditional supercomputer architecture based on a new, non von Neumann principle and allowing a significant paralleling of the computational process on the hardware level. This architecture uses the latest principles of optical information processing, has a high circuit structure regularity and provides the performance from 10¹⁰ to 10¹² oper/s. A basic peculiarity of the proposed architecture is the automatic dynamic allocation of resources of computing means for separate procedures and statements. The solution of this problem sets the man free of extremely complicated work when programming parallel processes in multicomputer and multiprocessor systems.

At present, V.S.Burtsev is supervisor scientist in the area of fundamental research on developing various architecture solutions for the superperformance computing system and its system software in order to create an information and computer system with the maximum performance of 10¹² to 10¹⁴ oper/s using novel physical principles.

Works on research and creation of the new computer architectures are conducted within the Programme of Nain Directions of Fundamental Reasearch and for Creation of Optical Superperformance Computer of the Russian Academy of Sciences (OSC/RAS).

For his works on designing computer devices, control and information processing systems, V.S.Burtsev was rewarded with Lenin Prize and two State Prizes.
For a series of works "Theory and practice of creating high-performance miltiprocessor computers" he was rewarded with S.A.Lebedev Prize of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

V.S.Burtsev is the author of over 120 scientific papers published in the Soviet Union and abroad reflecting many drastically novel architecture solutions for supercomputers and systems on their basis providing for the utmost speed of hardware and high reliability of its operation.

V.S.Burtsev does a great work on teaching new scientific personnel. Under his guidance, more than 40 scientists successfully defended candidate and doctor theses. He has been a lecturer at the Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute since its foundation. He also heads the chair "Microprocessor system, electronics and electrical engineering" at the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute.

List of papers

He is the author more than 130 scientific articles. Latest are:

[88] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Analyze of testing results for MVK"Elbrus-2" and foregoing ways of its development", Preprint, OVM AN SSSR, 1988.

[89] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Vektor processor MVK Elbrus-2". In the "SuperEVM", Moscow, 1989., 1 p.l.

[90a] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Tendention of the development for the supercomputers", In the "Computers with non-traditional architectures", 1990.

[90b] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Principles of development and modelling of special-purpose vector processor on the optical element base", "Computers with non-traditional architectures", 1990.

[91a] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Optical principles of information processing at the supercomputer architecture", Preprint, N 24, 1991. Scientific Computer Center, pp 27-36.

[91b] V.S. Burtsev (and others), "Report of the scientific trip in USA", Preprint, 1991.

[91c] V.S.Burtsev. "Optical priciples of information processing in Supercomputer architerture", Optical Computing and Processing, Vol.1, N4, pp.269-274, 1991.

[91d] S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Optical Associative Memory for Nontraditional Architecture Digital Computers and Database Management Systems", Proc. SPIE, vol. 1621, Optical Memory & Neural Networks, 1991., pp. 215-226.

[91e] S. Burtsev, A. B. Copejkin V. B. Fyodorov, "The optical commentators for productive computer systems: problems & perspectives, Proceedings from Soviet Chinese seminar "Holography and optical information processing", Bishkek, Academy of Sciences, 1991., pp. 21-26.

[91f] S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Optical Associative Memory for High-Performance Digital Computers with Nontraditional Architecture", Optical Computing & Processing, vol. 1, no. 4, 1991., pp. 274-288.

[91g] S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Associative Memory of New Generation Supercomputers Based on Optical Information Processing Principles", Proc. SPIE, vol. 1731, Soviet-Chinese seminar, 1991., pp. 201-216.

[92a] V. S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Associative Memory Based on Optical Information Processing Principles for New Generation Supercomputers", Kvantovaya elektroniaka, vol. 19, no. 8, 1992, pp. 795-803, (in Russian).
English. trans. in Soviet J. Quant. Electron.

[92b] S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Associative Memory for High-Performance Computers", Radiotechnika, no. 7-8, 1992., pp. 79-86, (in Russian). English. trans. in Telecom. & Radio Engng.

[92c] S. Burtsev, V. B. Fyodorov, "Optical Associative Memory of New Generation Supercomputers Based on Optical Information Processing Principles", Optical Computing & Processing, vol. 2, no. 3, 1992., pp. 161-172.

[92d] V. S. Burtsev and V. B. Fyodorov, "Associative memory based on optical information processing principles", Computers with non-traditional architecture, Issue 2, Moscow: Nauka, 1994, pp. 78-97 (in Russian).

[93a] V.S.Burtsev. OSM Project.1993. Technical Report. Scientific Computer Center, 1993.

[94a] V.S.Burtsev "The system of massed parallelism wwith automatic distribution of upercomputer hardware in process of fast execution", Computers with Non-traditional Architecture. Supercomputers., Issue 2, pp 3-37, Moscow, 1994.

[94b] V.S.Burtsev, V.B.Feodorov, "Associative memory on the principles of optical information processing for new generation supercomputers", Computers with Non-traditional Architecture. Supercomputers., Issue 2, pp 78-107, Moscow, 1994.

[95a] V.S.Burtsev, L.G.Tarasenko. "Ussing of the standard microprocessors at the dataflow sustem". Computers wwith Non-traditional Architecture, Issue3, pp.3-30, Moscow, 1995.

[96a] V.S.Burtsev, "Pecularities of vector processing unit design in the system with massed parallelism with automatic resources relocation", Computers with Non-traditional Architecture. Supercomputers., Issue 4, pp. 3-12, Moscow, 1996.

[97a] V.S.Burtsev, "The significance of creating of the ENIAC in the development of infornation, coputing and control systems in Russia.", In: V.S. Burtsev, "Parallelism of computational processes and development of supercomputer architecture", IHPCS RAS, Moscow, 1997, pp. 5-17.

[97b] V.S.Burtsev, "About the necessity of the supercomputer development in Russia", In: V.S. Burtsev, "Parallelism of computational processes and development of supercomputer architecture", IHPCS RAS, Moscow, 1997, pp. 18-27.

[97c] V.S.Burtsev, "New ways for estimating of quality of the computers", In: V.S. Burtsev, "Parallelism of computational processes and development of supercomputer architecture", IHPCS RAS, Moscow, 1997, pp. 28-41.

[97c] V.S.Burtsev, "The choise of a new system for organization of high-parallel computer ] processes executing, examples of possible architecture decisions for supercomputer development", In: V.S. Burtsev, "Parallelism of computational processes and development of supercomputer architecture", IHPCS RAS, Moscow, 1997, pp. 41-78.

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