Philip Emeagwali's video: Journey of Philip Emeagwali From Refugee Camp to the Frontier of Supercomputing Fastest Computers

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. It’s been said that, sometimes, you must leave home to understand home. I had to leave physics where I began in June 1970 in Onitsha (Nigeria), namely, the Ordinary Level Physics of the General Certificate of Education of the University of London (England) as well as the Advanced Level Physics of the School Certificate of the West African Examination Council of Lagos (Nigeria). After January 15, 1970, the day the Nigeria-Biafra war was over, growing up as a 15-year-old in my ancestral hometown of Onitsha (Nigeria), my knowledge of physics in 1970 was limited to the one thousand one hundred and eighteen [1118-] paged textbook that was titled: “Advanced Level Physics.” That physics textbook was written by Michael Nelkon and Philip Parker. Both co-authors were physics teachers for the Advanced Level General Certificate of Education of the University of London, England. “Advanced Level Physics” was the most popular physics textbook in British Commonwealth, and was popular from India to Africa. I left physics through calculus. I left physics taking with me the Second Law of Motion that I encoded into my system of nine coupled, non-linear, time-dependent, state-of-the-art, and never-before-seen partial differential equations of the modern calculus. Those partial differential equations and my mathematical and experimental inventions of how to discretize and solve them across my new internet that is my new supercomputer and my new computer was the cover story of top mathematics publications, such as the May 1990 issue of the SIAM News. The SIAM News is the bi-monthly news journal of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics that is the top society for research mathematicians. The Shortest Time-to-Solution As a polymath, a set of laws of physics was the lowest common denominator in the theories and experiments that I conducted during the sixteen years onward of June 20, 1974 that was the first day that I programmed the sequential processing supercomputer that was at 1800 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, Oregon, United States. In textbooks on computational physics, where there are laws of physics that were used to solve problems, they are systems of partial differential equations of calculus that encoded those laws of physics. Where there are partial differential equations of calculus to be solved on supercomputers, there are large-scale systems of equations of algebra that approximated those systems of equations of calculus. Where there are large-scale algebraic equations to be massively solved in parallel there must be a set of floating-point arithmetical operations that solves those equations. For that reason, it made the news headlines that I invented the precursor to the massively parallel processing supercomputer of today and that I invented that technology on the Fourth of July 1989 and in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. I experimentally discovered that where there are humongous sets of floating-point arithmetical operations that takes 30,000 years of time-to-solution on only one isolated processor that was not a member of an ensemble of processors that there should be a new internet that is a new global network of processors, or a new global network of as many identical computers. That new internet is a new supercomputer and a new computer that takes just one day of time-to-solution to solve what otherwise will take 30,000 years to solve. The reason the twelve-year-old is doing a school report on the contributions of Philip Emeagwali to the development of the computer is that I invented how to massively parallel process and how to do so across a new internet. The reason my invention of the massively parallel processing supercomputer was written in major U.S. newspapers was that it opened the door for speeding up 30,000 years of time-to-solution on one computer that computed with only one processor to just one day of time-to-solution on one supercomputer that simultaneously computed across a tightly-coupled ensemble of ten million processors. TOPICS 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, black history month guest speakers, school assembly, Keynote speakers, Conference Keynote Speakers, Technology Keynote Speakers, Futurist Keynote Speakers, Technology Futurist, Educator 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 180609 2 3+4 of 8