Philip Emeagwali's video: Emeagwali: My Brief Fifty-Year Retrospective on Supercomputing Inventors and their Inventions

A Black Supercomputer Geek in Oregon My quest for the parallel processing supercomputer began on a sequential processing supercomputer in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. In my first year of programming sequential processing supercomputers, I accessed those supercomputers via a Teletype Model 33 ASR. The acronym ASR stands for Automatic Send-Receive. On June 20, 1974, the Teletype Model 33 ASR that I was using could be in my one-room studio apartment at 195A Knox Street South, Monmouth, Oregon, United States. But the Teletype Model 33 ASR was inside a computer laboratory. That computer laboratory was at three hundred and forty-five [345] Monmouth Avenue North, in Monmouth, Oregon, United States. That computer laboratory was twenty-two miles away from the two supercomputers —both in the Computer Center, in Corvallis, Oregon, United States— that I was remotely programming. The Teletype Model 33 ASR automatically sent and received my supercomputer codes and data. My electronic messages were sent and received via a telephone line. I used that telephone line to electronically speak with a Programmed Data Processor that was called the PDP-8 minicomputer. Nine months later, in late March 1975, I relocated from Monmouth (Oregon) to Corvallis (Oregon) and I continued programming the supercomputer —from 200 feet away— and from a Teletype Model 33 ASR that was in Kidder Hall at 2000 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, Oregon, United States. A Black Supercomputer Geek in Nuclear Labs My invention of the massively parallel processing supercomputer revealed itself within a new internet that is a parallel processing machine that resided in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. That parallel processing machine is the Iroko tree of my world of supercomputing. That parallel processing machine that I experimentally discovered to be a new internet powered by a new global network of 65,536 identical processors that were already available in the market was the precursor to the fastest, modern supercomputer of today that is powered by a network ten million six hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred [10,649,600] identical processors that were already available in the market anyway. That parallel processing machine that I invented is the precursor to the modern computer of today that is powered by about one hundred processors that were already available in the market anyway. That parallel processing machine was the precursor to the high-performance supercomputer of today and the precursor to the modern computer of today. To invent is to create something out of nothing. For sixteen years, onward of June 20, 1974, I—Philip Emeagwali— was the lone wolf supercomputer programmer that was perched on the top of that Iroko tree of the forest of fastest supercomputers that are powered by billions upon billions of processors that were already available in the market anyway. 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   TOPICS black history month guest speakers, school assembly, Keynote speakers, Conference Keynote Speakers, Technology Keynote Speakers, Futurist Keynote Speakers, Technology Futurist, Educator, Philip Emeagwali, supercomputer, father of the modern supercomputer, Philip Emeagwali Computer, world's fastest supercomputer, parallel processing, high performance computing, parallel computing, massively parallel supercomputers, Philip Emeagwali Supercomputer, Philip Emeagwali Machine, fastest supercomputer in the world, what are supercomputers used for?, fastest computer Philip Emeagwali 180608 2 2 of 4