Philip Emeagwali's video: Emeagwali: I Visualized Emails as Bullets Out of My Eyes How I Invented the Fastest Computer

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. At 10:15 in the morning New York Time Tuesday the Fourth of July 1989, the U.S. Independence Day, I experimentally discovered how to massively parallel process and how to do so across an ensemble of 65,536 processors that were the building blocks of a new supercomputer. I proved that the slowest 65,536 processors —when used to solve the toughest problems in computational physics—is faster than the fastest supercomputer. That experimental discovery made the news headlines because it was a milestone in the history of the computer. I experimentally discovered massively parallel processing by first theoretically discovering it in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, experimentally discovering it on the Fourth of July 1989 and experimentally discovering it when research supercomputer scientists rejected and mocked the technology of massively parallel processing as a huge waste of their time. For the fifteen years, onward of June 20, 1974, I worked alone to find a solution. I believed in massively parallel processing supercomputing, while sequential processing and vector processing supercomputer scientists dismissed the technology as utopia. I experimentally discovered massively parallel processing by first theoretical discovering how to synchronously communicate my extreme-scale initial-boundary value problems of physics and calculus and algebra. I experimentally discovered massively parallel processing by first theoretically discovering how to communicate my computational fluid dynamics codes and how to communicate those computer codes and how to communicate them via emails that I sent to and received from my sixteen-bit long email addresses. I experimentally discovered massively parallel processing by first theoretically discovering how to communicate those computer codes and how to communicate them across my new internet that was my global network of one binary million commodity email wires. My new internet married my 64 binary thousand processors and married them together and married them as one seamless, cohesive supercomputer that had one processor at the crossroad of my sixteen email pathways. Those sixteen pathways were mutually orthogonal in the sixteenth-dimensional hyperspace. That is, they were perpendicular in the sixteen directions of an imaginary sixteen dimensional universe. I discovered my new supercomputer by visualizing my email messages as firing like bullets out of my eyes and coming from computers in a sixteen dimensional hyperspace. Five Subject Line Emails I synchronously sent 65,536, or two-raised-to-power sixteen, emails that were simultaneously received at two-to-power sixteen email addresses that were each sixteen-bit long. I simultaneously received those emails at my 65,536 processors. I sent and received my 65,536 sets of answers, or the initial and boundary values of my extreme-scale initial-boundary value problem of computational physics and modern mathematics. I visualized each set of data as my email subject line. I visualized each email as containing five subject lines. But I received each email message as a three-subject-lined message. I received my emails at my 65,536 commodity processors, with each of my processor uniquely identified by a unique string of sixteen zeroes and ones. At the end of each computational cycle of my computational physics code that encoded the algebraic approximation of my initial-boundary value problem of modern calculus, I visualized those emails as fired from the processors like bullets out of my eyes. On the Fourth of July 1989, the US Independence Day, I began each supercomputing cycle by firing two-to-power sixteen emails across sixteen times two-to-power sixteen short, bi-directional, commodity email wires. That’s a total of 1,048,576 email wires, each akin to a short telegraph wire! Those sixteen directions that are mutually orthogonal in sixteen-dimensional hyperspace enabled me to synchronously compute the mathematical solutions to my world record algebraic equations and to compute them across my global network of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors that are identical and equal distances apart from each other. That was how I experimentally discovered how to communicate the answers to my computational physics codes and how to communicate them via the 65,536 five-subject-lined emails that I sent across a new internet that was my sixteen-network-deep global network of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors and sent along its 1,048,576 internal bi-directional pathways that I visualized as tightly encircling the surface of a sphere in sixteen-dimensional hyperspace. I received each of those five-subject-lined email message as a three-subject-lined email message. The reason I dropped two subject lines was that my last two subject lines contained two unique strings of sixteen zeroes and ones. Philip Emeagwali 180126 1 3 of 5