Philip Emeagwali's video: The Eureka Moment I Discovered Parallel Supercomputing History of the Computer

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. Not witnessing the first Eureka moment of the modern supercomputer that occurred at 10 a.m. the Fourth of July 1989 was like not witnessing the first human flight that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, we accept it as an act of faith that the first human flight occurred. And we must accept it as an act of faith that the first modern supercomputer was discovered. Knowing I Made a Breakthrough I recognized that I had a breakthrough supercomputer discovery because the speed of my floating-point arithmetical operations instantaneously increased and did so by a factor of 64 binary thousand, or sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536]. The reason my speedup of 65,536 days to one day made the news headlines was that it was a milestone in the history of computing. My proof that it was a breakthrough supercomputer discovery was that soon after it was clarified as a historic speedup it became practical and cost-effective to manufacture supercomputers that computed in parallel. The first commercially available massively parallel processing supercomputers used 65,536, or more, commodity-off-the-shelf processors. Each processor was akin to a tiny computer. The modern supercomputer uses millions upon millions of commodity processors and uses them to compute in parallel and to reduce the time-to-solution of extreme-scale problems in computational physics and computational mathematics. After my discovery, extreme-scale computations that formerly took 180 years, or 65,536 days, of time-to-solution now takes just one day of time-to-solution. That extraordinary speedup was achieved when programmers massively parallel computed and did so across 64 binary thousand commodity 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 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 2 5