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He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in September 1987 after it dropped the MP line. With IBM's financial support, Chen founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated (SSI) in January 1988.
By CBR Staff Writer. The high-level parallel supercomputer development project at Cray Research Inc has been abandoned, but the design team, led by Steve Chen, plan to set up their own company to complete the project and bring the machine, dubbed the Y-MP, to market in the early 1990s.
Dr. Steve S. Chen. Chairman/CEO and Chief Architect. Information SuperGrid Technology Inc. Other Affiliations. Information SuperGrid Technology Inc. Cray Research, Inc. SuperComputers International. +8. Location. Mountain View, California, United States. Election Year 1991. Primary Section Computer Science and Engineering. Election Citation.
Mr. Chen, a Taiwanese-born American citizen who was considered one of the nation's most brilliant supercomputer designers while working in this country for the technology pioneer Seymour Cray...
He holds an M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers. He left Cray Research in 1987. With IBM's financial support, he founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated in January 1988.
The X-MP, designed by Steve Chen, improved on the Cray-1 by using multiple central processors. It was used to simulate the evolution of the universe, to model geological plate movement, to analyze brain scans of Alzheimer’s patients and much more.
By CBR Staff Writer. Supercomputer designer Steve Chen has finally broken cover after some three years during which people had started wondering whether he was even still in business, and has been talking guardedly about the SS-1 machine that his Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based Supercomputer Systems Inc is developing with IBM Corp’s money.
