Philip Emeagwali's video: Parallel Processing is My Contribution to Physics Inventions that Revolutionized Our Understanding

I’m Philip Emeagwali. Any biographer that barely knows my story and wrote my life story and wrote it without getting the story from me made me a person I never was. The sequential processing supercomputer, that is the old computer, was invented in 1946. The parallel processing supercomputer, that is the new computer, was not invented in 1946. The modern supercomputer, that computes and communicates across, more than ten million commodity processors was experimentally discovered at 10:15 in the morning NewYork Time Tuesday the Fourth of July 1989, the US Independence Day. The experimental discovery of parallel processing made the news headlines back in 1989 and radically changed our understanding of the computer. For the four decades, onward of 1946, the theorized ensemble of millions of commodity processors working together as one cohesive supercomputer that could solve the toughest problems in extreme-scale computational physics was dismissed as a beautiful theory that lacked experimental confirmation. On the Fourth of July 1989, I made the first-ever experimental discovery of parallel processing computations that is the world’s fastest computation and that I executed across a global network of two-raised-to-power sixteen, or 65,536, commodity processors that were married together by sixteen times as many commodity email wires and married together as one seamless, cohesive supercomputer. I visualized my global network of two-to-power sixteen processors as my new internet that is embedded in the sixteenth dimensional hyperspace. Before the Fourth of July 1989, looking at the precursor to the modern parallel processing supercomputer was like looking at the first wrist watch that never ticked and trying to figure out what will make that first wrist watch to start ticking for the first time. On the night of the Fourth of July 1989, I had a powerful, unsettling dream. I woke up with the visceral feeling that I had permanently entered into the history book and into school reports. What did Philip Emeagwali Invent? A 12-year-old American researching her school report asked: “What did Philip Emeagwali invent?” I answered: I invented a new internet that is a global network of 64 binary thousand commodity processors. I visualized that internet as encircling a globe in a sixteen-dimensional hyperspace. I also invented another internet that is a global network of commodity-off-the-shelf processors that encircles a globe in a three-dimensional space. I invented how to parallel process across a new internet. I experimentally discovered how and why parallel processing makes modern computers faster and makes the new supercomputer the fastest. I invented how to solve extreme-scale problems in computational physics and how to solve them across a new internet. My invention of massively parallel processing changed the way we solve extreme-scale problems in computational physics, and changed it from solving only one problem at a time to massively communicating and massively computing and massively solving millions of problems at once. PHYSICS/ENGINEERS black physicists, famous black physicists, famous black mathematicians, famous black computer scientist, African American physicists, African American Inventors, black history month, famous black inventors, Black Inventors, Black Scientists, Famous Engineers of the 21st Century, today, still alive, in history, black, African, Nigerian, African American Inventors and Engineers, African American engineers, For information about Philip Emeagwali, http://emeagwali.com https://facebook.com/emeagwali https://twitter.com/emeagwali https://instagram.com/philipemeagwali https://flickr.com/philipemeagwali https://linkedin.com/in/emeagwali https://soundcloud.com/emeagwali https://youtube.com/emeagwali Philip Emeagwali 180123 1 1 of 9