Philip Emeagwali's video: Philip Emeagwali: My Struggles to Invent a New Internet Who Invented the Internet Igbo Spoken

For my world’s fastest petroleum reservoir calculations that made the news headlines that were highlighted in the June 20, 1990 issue of the Wall Street Journal, I had to uniquely name all my sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536] commodity-off-the-shelf processors, and correspondingly name as many problems in extreme-scale computational physics and name them with a one-to-one correspondence between the problems and my as many processors. Geometrically, I saw my small copy of the Internet as a global network of two-to-power sixteen, or sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six [65,536], commodity-off-the-shelf processors in which each processor had a one-to-one correspondence to the as many vertices of a cube in sixteen dimensional hyperspace. I visualized that cube as tightly circumscribed by a globe and I visualized the vertices of that cube to be on the surface of that globe and to be equal distances apart. A young Nigerian asked me: “How can I become a supercomputer wizard like you, Philip Emeagwali?” I explained that he can become a supercomputer wizard by experimentally discovering that the impossible-to-compute is, in fact, possible-to-compute and experimentally discovering it across a never-before-seen quantum computer. I explained that it took me sixteen years onward of June 20, 1974 to experimentally discover how and why massively parallel processing across a new internet makes the computer faster and makes the supercomputer fastest and how to use that new supercomputer knowledge to build a new supercomputer that encircled the globe in the way the internet does. It took me sixteen years of programming sixteen supercomputers, each powered by up to two-to-power sixteen commodity processors to experimentally discover how and why parallel processing makes the supercomputer super. It took me sixteen years to become the African supercomputer wizard in the United States that won the top prize in supercomputing. It takes time to make an invention that is noteworthy. I failed sixteen times in sixteen years before I discovered how to name my processors and problems. I used the binary reflected code to generate my unique sixteen-bit long binary identification names that I must generate as the precondition to harnessing the power of my two-to-power sixteen commodity processors. Yet, assigning a computational fluid dynamics code in computational physics to a processor within a small copy of the Internet was not as simple as emailing the computational fluid dynamics code and emailing its initial and boundary data to each processor that shared its corresponding decimal address. Technically speaking, emailing to decimal addresses still solves the computational fluid dynamics problem. But it will merely solve the computation-intensive initial-boundary value problem of computational physics and solve it at the everyday speed of the computer, not at the newsworthy speed of the supercomputer, or at the supercomputer speed up of 180 years in one day that became my signature discovery. When I began to experimentally program supercomputers on June 20, 1974, in Corvallis, Oregon, I did not know that I will invent how to massively parallel process across a small copy of the Internet that is a global network of 64 binary thousand commodity-off-the-shelf processors. That new internet was a small copy of a never-before-understood Internet, that had only 65,536 processors around a globe instead of billions of computers around a globe. I didn’t know the answer. I didn’t know what I would invent. If I knew the answer I wouldn’t be solving the problem. And if some else knew the answer before I did then my answer would not have made the news headlines in 1989. It’s true that I had to hit my mark and run. It’s true that I did not follow all the rules. It’s true that I re-wrote some rules. TOPICS philip emeagwali father of the internet, philip emeagwali and the internet, Philip Emeagwali Father of the Internet, Philip Emeagwali Biography, Who invented the Internet?, history of the Internet, When was the Internet invented?, Who invented the Internet first?, Who created the Internet and why?, A Father of the Internet, Nigerian Scientist, African Inventors, black inventors, black inventions that changed the world, black inventions we use everyday, black African inventions, black inventions and discoveries, famous black American inventions, black inventions of the 21st century, inventions for black history month, 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 Lecture 180120-2 Part 2