Philip Emeagwali's video: Inventing the World s Fastest Supercomputers History of Computer Science Philip Emeagwali

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. The grand challenge problem in massively parallel processing supercomputing was a public examination problem that was given by the United States government and given in the 1980s to 25,000 vector processing supercomputer scientists and to their leader, Seymour Cray. That examination was a clarion call to solve the toughest problems that arose in extreme-scale computational physics. Each of those 25,000 vector processing supercomputer scientists and their leader, Seymour Cray, gave up on the dream of being the inventor to enter into the history book and enter as the inventor that solved that grand challenge problem of the massively parallel processing supercomputer. For me, Philip Emeagwali, that came of age in the early 1980s, the massively parallel processing supercomputer was a new theory, or an idea that was not positively true. Back in the 1970s, the massively parallel processing supercomputer that I experimentally discovered on the Fourth of July 1989 was a science fiction that demanded a new calculus and that demanded new calculations and that demanded new experiments that I executed across a new internet that is a new global network of 64 binary thousand tightly-coupled processors. That new global network is a new supercomputer. That new global network is a new computer. And most importantly, my experimental discovery was that a problem in extreme-scale computational physics that is unsolvable on a sequential processing supercomputer is, in fact, solveable across a massively parallel processing supercomputer that is a new internet and a new supercomputer. As was reported in the U.S. media, back in 1989 and thereafter, only one supercomputer wizard passed that grand challenge examination. I am that lone wolf supercomputer scientist that passed that grand challenge examination. At its granite core, the fastest supercomputer is only fastest and super if and only if it computes in parallel to solve the previously impossible to solve. For that reason, the father of the fastest supercomputer is the massively parallel processing supercomputer scientist that experimentally discovered how and why parallel processing works. It’s difficult to define the father of the fastest supercomputer that computes in parallel and that communicates across the millions upon millions of tightly-coupled, processors. The father of the modern supercomputer is the contributor to the fastest supercomputer that was at the farthest frontier of supercomputing. The father of the supercomputer was longest at that farthest frontier of supercomputing. The father of the supercomputer crossed the farthest frontier of the supercomputer and crossed that technological frontier at a time everybody else scorned, ridiculed, and rejected parallel processing and rejected the technology as a huge waste of everybody’s time. Perhaps, it is only at a very visceral level that you will recognize the father of the modern supercomputer. Back in 1989, 25,000 supercomputer programmers abandoned the pre-cursors of the modern massively parallel processing supercomputer that computes across processors, or across tiny computers. The leader in the world of the vector processing supercomputer, named Seymour Cray, was the strongest opponent of the modern, massively parallel processing supercomputer. To date, the brainiest quote of Seymour Cray is this: “If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?” Seymour Cray would rather compute with two strong oxen, or the two fastest processors in the world. I—Philip Emeagwali—would rather compute with 1,024 chickens, or the 1,024 slowest processors in the world. As was widely reported—including in the June 20, 1990 issue of the Wall Street Journal, I—Philip Emeagwali— experimentally discovered that 65,536 chickens are more powerful than one oxen. I experimentally discovered how the modern supercomputer that embodies millions upon millions of tightly-coupled, commonly available processors becomes a cohesive whole unit that has no edges or directions. My invention of the massively parallel processing supercomputer opened the door to the fastest supercomputer of today. For the record, Seymour Cray ridiculed and caricatured the fastest supercomputer that computes in parallel. For this reason, Seymour Cray is not one of the fathers of the fastest massively parallel processing supercomputers that he ridiculed and caricatured. Today, the fastest supercomputers compute in parallel. 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 180609 2 5+6 of 8