Philip Emeagwali's video: I Discovered that Parallel Computing Makes Supercomputers Fastest Philip Emeagwali Invention

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. In the early 1990s, I gave lecture tours across the United States that sparked new interest in massively parallel processing supercomputers. My parallel supercomputing lectures were co-sponsored by the Association for Computer Machinery that was the premier society for computer professionals. My parallel supercomputing lectures were co-sponsored by The Computer Society of the IEEE that was the largest society for computer professionals. Although I gave 90-minute lectures in the early 1990s, I must say that my experimental discovery of how parallel processing makes modern computers faster and how massively parallel processing makes the new supercomputer the fastest cannot be passed along in a 90-minute lecture. My experimental discovery took me fifteen years, onward of June 20, 1974, to discover. Therefore, it should also take you fifteen years to re-discover the parallel processing supercomputer that took me fifteen years to discover. It’s often said that it takes ten thousand [10,000] hours to become the best athlete, to become a professional soccer player, or to become a tennis professional. I put in two hundred thousand [200,000] hours to experimentally discover how and why massively parallel processing across a new internet makes the supercomputer super. Any person that did not put in two hundred thousand [200,000] hours cannot explain how I invented the modern parallel processing supercomputer. For me, Philip Emeagwali, the 1970s and ‘80s were the decades of darkness. In those decades, mathematicians ridiculed me by saying: “This will not work!” Looking back, those rejections paved the way for me to work alone. It was important that I pursued only my own scientific vision. Two bad visions are not better than one good vision. Two heads with two visions are not better than one head with one vision, unless both heads pursue only one vision. Put differently, democracy rarely works in the quest for new scientific knowledge. As the inventor, I alone know the origin story of my invention. I know how I want to express my story. I don’t care if my expression conforms to how others expect me to express it. Nobody should be afraid to be who she is. Parallel Processing Was Mocked In the United States and Europe, and in the 1970s and ‘80s, the leaders of thought in the world of supercomputing—namely, Gene Amdahl who advocated sequential processing supercomputing and Seymour Cray who advocated vector processing supercomputing— had the wrong visions for the future of the supercomputer that will be parallel processing and doing so across an ensemble of millions of processing units. In the early 1980s, I was mocked and dismissed from my research team and ridiculed when I told teachers to stop teaching sequential processing supercomputing and to stop teaching vector processing supercomputing and to stop teaching both techniques and technologies as the only paradigm in supercomputing. The supercomputer textbook authors and the supercomputer teachers, of the 1980s and earlier, didn’t understand how to parallel process extreme-scale problems in computational physics. If they did, they would not have incorrectly dismissed parallel processing as a huge waste of everybody’s time. 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 180128 4 of 7