Philip Emeagwali's video: A Short Biography of Philip Emeagwali Famous Inventors and their Inventions

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. The experimental invention of the massively parallel processing supercomputer —that solves many problems at once, instead of solving only one problem at a time—and its absorption into new computers and into new supercomputers is one of computing industry’s most hopeful narrative. Prior to the Fourth of July 1989, the naysayers within the supercomputer industry demanded that parallel processing adapt to them, instead of them adapt to parallel processing. In the supercomputing community of the 1970s and ‘80s, the massively parallel processing supercomputer was greeted with skepticism and was ridiculed as a huge waste of everybody’s time. The inventor is the troubadour of technological knowledge. The inventor of parallel processing is the troubadour of supercomputing. But unlike the troubadour that was the medieval lyric poet of the 11th to 13th centuries who writes verse to music the inventor of the modern supercomputer writes never-before-seen emails to a never-before-seen ensemble of processors that outline a never-before-seen internet that was never-before-understood as a global network of processors that is the fastest supercomputer, de facto. Seeing the Big Picture One unexpected benefit of being a black and African inventor and, therefore, forced to invent as a lone wolf was that it enabled me to have a coherent vision that I centered on my new internet. In the 1970s and ‘80s, I developed a body of work in which the elements were disparate but, yet, fit together as one cohesive whole that’s a new supercomputer and that’s de facto a new internet. For instance, I discovered that what I learned or discovered in previous boards translated over, in whole or in part, and that far more important, that I was re-telling the same story of the motions of fluids that were governed by the laws of physics. I was the troubadour of supercomputing who translated a story in extreme-scale computational physics and translated it from the blank storyboard to a story in modern mathematics on the blank blackboard and translated that story in a never-before-seen calculus to a story in extreme-scale algebra and to a story that resulted in my execution of immensely computation-intensive floating-point arithmetical calculations executed on the motherboard and translated that story on the motherboard to 64 binary thousand stories across motherboards and continued to translate those stories to the boardrooms to the classrooms and to your living rooms. My Supercomputing Style Amongst research supercomputer scientists, that style of speaking and thinking was distinctly mine. An artist often uses the same style to portray different subjects. An artist may be an impressionist like the late 19th century Frenchman Claude Monet or a surrealist like the early 20th century painter Salvador Dali or a modernist like the 1920s and ‘30s painter Henri Matisse or a sculptor like the 20th century Ben Enwonu of my hometown of Onitsha, Nigeria. I’m an extreme scale computational physicist that uses the laws of physics to digitally replicate the global motions of fluids that enshroud the Earth. I digitally replicated those motions across my new internet that’s a global network of sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536] equidistant processors that encircled the globe that’s my metaphor for the Earth. My Supercomputer Origin Story My quest for the fastest supercomputer was a sixteen-year-long journey that began on June 20, 1974 and began on a sequential processing supercomputer that was at 1800 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, Oregon, United States. My experimental discovery of the fastest supercomputer ended on a parallel processing machine in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. Los Alamos is a quiet, small town that’s often referred to as the capital of supercomputing but is better known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan. When I began supercomputing, on June 20, 1974, I lacked clarity on what my new internet, or global network of 64 binary thousand processors, —that’s a parallel processing machine—was. My early vision of a small copy of that new internet was a mere idea —a small seed of an Iroko tree— instead of the grown 160-foot tall Iroko tree that it became sixteen years later. I began in 1974 with a semi-abstract, theorized HyperBall internet. That new internet was a global network of computers. That new internet evolved from one CPU, or processor, to across sixteen years to become a very realistic new internet that used the cube in the sixteenth dimension as its metaphor. 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 180127 1 1 of 3