Philip Emeagwali's video: Emeagwali: Parallel Processing is My Contribution to Supercomputing Invention of the Computer

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. To invent, or to discover, is to make the impossible possible. In the world of supercomputers, to invent a new supercomputer is to make the impossible-to-compute possible-to-compute. The most important element of the computer is its CPU, the acronym for central processing unit, or processor, for short. The processor is where the computer computes. In November 1982, in a conference auditorium that was a short walk from The White House, Washington, D.C., I gave a scientific lecture on how to massively parallel process and on how to communicate and compute across a new internet that is a global network of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors. My scientific lecture of November 1982 was dismissed offhandedly. I was mocked and ridiculed and accused of embarking on a grandiose and overreaching supercomputer research. Back in November 1982, it was impossible to harness 65,536 commodity processors that were identical and that were equal distances apart. It was impossible in 1982 to harness those processors as one seamless, cohesive unit that is a new supercomputer de facto. Fast forward seven years to the Fourth of July 1989 the day that I made the experimental discovery that later were highlighted in the June 20, 1990 issue of the Wall Street Journal. I was in the news because I experimentally discovered how to couple exponential computing with exponential global network of 65,536 commodity processors to experimentally discover an exponential computing speed increase of a factor of 65,536. I began supercomputing at age 19 on June 20, 1974 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. My parallel processing supercomputer research of the mid 1970s did not have solving the toughest problems in computational physics as my predetermined objective. On the other hand, my massively parallel processing supercomputer research of the early 1980s had extreme-scale computational fluid dynamics as my computational testbed, or as my predetermined objective. How I Discovered a New Supercomputer Please allow me to briefly explain how I topologically discovered the parallel processing supercomputer that is not a new computer per se but that is a new internet de facto. My drawing of the hypercube on two-dimensional paper became to me, its lone wolf programmer, what the lyrics is to the lone singer-songwriter. I partially drew the blueprint of my global network of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors. That blueprint represented my new internet. My illustrations of my new internet was partial because that it was impractical for anyone to draw a sixteen-dimensional cube and draw it by hand, and draw it to include its 1,048,576, or one binary million, bi-directional edges that connected its 65,536, or 64 binary thousand, vertices. My visualized, complete illustration of my sixteen-dimensional hypercube that is the cube in a sixteen-dimensional hyperspace had sixteen distinct colors. That sixteen-colored illustration of the hypercube in the sixteenth dimension was inspiring and extraordinarily handsome. That sixteen-colored illustration of the hypercube revealed the internal beauty of the modern supercomputer that communicates and computes in parallel and communicates with a one-to-one correspondence between a vertex of a hypercube and a commodity-off-the-shelf processor. And communicates with another one-to-one correspondence between the bi-directional edge of a hypercube and an email wire. That geometric discovery enabled me to reduce the complexity of my email communications and reduce that complexity from a factor of 65,536 to a factor of merely sixteen. That was how I topologically discovered the parallel processing supercomputer that is not a new computer per se but that is a new internet de facto. TOPICS black physicists, famous black physicists, famous black mathematicians, famous black computer scientist, African American physicists, African American Inventors, black history month, famous black inventors, Black Inventors, Black Scientists, Famous Engineers of the 21st Century, today, still alive, in history, black, African, Nigerian, African American Inventors and Engineers, African American engineers, 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