Philip Emeagwali's video: How I Invented a New Supercomputer What Are the Fastest Computers Used For Philip Emeagwali

The reason every supercomputer programmer-hopeful, except I —Philip Emeagwali—abandoned the massively parallel processing supercomputer-hopeful was that naysayers said that the message-passing programming of an ensemble of millions upon millions of processors was akin to looking at God in the face. During my quest for the fastest supercomputer, I felt like I was walking alone along a small road with a small lamp. In the 1970s and ‘80s, it was often said that parallel processing is a huge waste of everybody’s time. As a lone wolf supercomputer scientist, my grand challenge was to draw the massively parallel processing supercomputing power that I needed to record the fastest computational speed in the history of the computer. That fastest speed, that I recorded at 8:15 in the morning of the Fourth of July 1989 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, was the reason major newspapers called me the African Supercomputer Wizard. The wizard in the unknown world of the massively parallel processing supercomputer must command all 65,536 tightly-coupled processors. That wizard must control all 1,048,576 bi-directional email pathways that married those processors together as one seamless, cohesive supercomputer that is a new internet de facto. Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, I was excited because I was the unknown supercomputer wizard. I was excited because I locked all 64 binary thousand commodity processors and locked all one binary million commodity email wires. I was excited because l locked the entire parallel processing machine and locked them at all times. The year that I locked my massively parallel processing supercomputer was 1989. The place that I locked my massively parallel processing supercomputer was Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. Overcoming Obstacles to Modern Supercomputing Looking back to the National Computer Conference that took place in June 1976 in New York City, a panel of supercomputer experts ridiculed the massively parallel processing supercomputer-hopeful and dismissed the technology as large and clumsy and dismissed it as a huge waste of everybody’s time. So my research in parallel processing was science fiction to the attendees of that National Computer Conference of 1976. In the 1970s and ‘80s, I drew my inspiration from half-human cyborgs that I imagined as super-intelligent lizards of Year Million that will colonize outer space and that are half Year Million computers and half Year Million post-humans— and that will make our science fiction their Year Million non-fiction. I theorized that the technology of massively parallel processing will be at the core of the brain power of the half-human cyborgs of the fourth millennium. I theorized that each half-human cyborg will talk to a trillion cyborgs and will communicate in real-time and will compute together to make our science fiction their non-fiction. You hear about a half-human cyborg, but I had always imagined that—by Year Million— trillions upon trillions of immortal post-human cyborgs could roam our Milky Way galaxy and do so to accomplish what seems impossible to humans. Those post-humans of Year Million will be half-humans because they could compute and communicate in parallel. How I Invented a New Supercomputer The sequential processing supercomputer that is programmable was invented in 1946. The massively parallel processing supercomputer that is programmable across an ensemble of processors became faster than any supercomputer after my experimental discovery that occurred on the Fourth of July 1989. The modern supercomputer that occupies the space of a soccer field and costs the budget of a small nation is a completely different beast from the everyday computer. The universe is huge and is 13.82 billion years old. The supercomputer is small when compared to the universe. When modeling the universe, we cannot squeeze the universe into a supercomputer. I’m Philip Emeagwali. I am a supercomputer scientist with the spirit of a mathematician and the soul of a physicist. Thank you. 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 180913 2 8 of 8