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I'm @Philip Emeagwali. The lesson that I learned from my quest for the fastest massively parallel processing supercomputer was this: The success of a scientific discovery is not dependent on a [quote unquote] “not guilty” verdict from every notable scientist. The science fiction writings of creative writers are different from the factual writings of research scientists. As a research supercomputer scientist, I could not create the fastest computation and create it in the manner a creative writer creates her science fiction novel. I discovered, not created, the fastest computation. I experimentally discovered the fastest computation across my new internet. My new internet was my new computer as well as my new supercomputer. My new internet was a global network of sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536] commodity-off-the-shelf processors. It’s said that a science fiction novelist is born to tell tales. I say that the scientific discoverer is born to tell truths. Any scientific discovery must be reproducible in a laboratory. My experimental discovery was reproduced by polymaths at home with physics, calculus, and parallel processing supercomputing. My experimental discovery was and can be reproduced because it represented the truth. It’s been said that art is what we can get away with. I say that not discovering is what we can’t get away with. Discovery Follows Vision For sixteen years, onward of June 20, 1974, my technological vision followed sixteen mutually orthogonal dimensions in hyperspace. I followed sixteen directions. That vision led me across sixteen times two-to-power sixteen, or 1,048,576, commodity-off-the-shelf processors. Each processor communicated via email in sixteen directions and communicated to send and receive initial and boundary conditions for my 65,536 initial-boundary value problems and to share those intermediate answers with its sixteen nearest-neighboring processors. It’s by indirection that we discover new directions for scientific progress. Increasing the Speed of the Modern Computer In the 1970s and ‘80s, it was anticipated that Moore’s Law will come to an end. That means that the anticipated speed increases of processors and computers will not continue to double every two years, as predicted by Moore’s Law. With the anticipated end of Moore’s Law, I anticipated that doubling the number of computer cores will be the only way to double the speedup of the modern parallel processing supercomputer. In the mid-nineteen seventies, supercomputer pioneers —such as Seymour Cray and Gene Amdahl— ridiculed and mocked my parallel processing theory. I theorized that I could use the new internet that I visualized as a global network of sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536] commodity processors and that I could use that new internet to solve computation-intensive grand challenge problems. The poster boy of the twenty grand challenge problems of supercomputing was the global circulation model that was used to foresee otherwise unforseeable global warming. In the nineteen eighties [1980s], no automation tools existed for automatic message passing across processors or computers. For that reason, I had to explicitly email each processor that I harnessed to experimentally discover the fastest computation. The supercomputer textbooks of the 1970s and ‘80s wrote that harnessing the massively parallel processing supercomputer to solve one of the twenty grand challenge problems of supercomputing is impossible. Before my experimental discovery that occurred on the Fourth of July 1989, it was impossible to synchronously email 65,536 commodity processors and command via emails them to compute together as one seamless, cohesive supercomputer that is not a new computer per se but that is a new internet de facto and that solved a grand challenge problem in extreme-scale computational physics. TOPICS black history month guest speakers, school assembly, Keynote speakers, Conference Keynote Speakers, Technology Keynote Speakers, Futurist Keynote Speakers, Technology Futurist, Educator, 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 180125 1 4 of 8