The three Soviet Elbrus systems were Elbrus 1 (1973) the first Russian integrated circuit computer, Elbrus 2 (1977) a 10-processor computer, and Elbrus 3 (1986) a 16-processor computer. Elbrus 1 was the first fourth generation Soviet computer[?] and was used by the Defence Ministry. A side development was an update of the 1965 BESM-6[?] as Elbrus-1K2. Elbrus 2 is considered the first Soviet supercomputer, with superscalar RISC processors, and was used in the space program, nuclear weapons research and defence systems.
The current SPARC-like systems have been developed from 1996 with the Elbrus-90 and the company was formed in agreement with Sun Microsystems in 1997. The company reported in 1998 the development of an innovative EPIC[?] processor dubbed E2K by a team under Boris Babaian[?], little has been heard since.
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