Father of the Internet | Philip Emeagwali | Nigerian, African | Black Inventions and their Inventors

I'm Philip Emeagwali. I was asked: "How did Philip Emeagwali become a father of the Internet?" When I began supercomputing, back on June 20, 1974, in Corvallis, Oregon, United States, I did not embark on a quest to become a father of the Internet. But if the father of the airplane is the person that invented the first airplane then the father of the Internet should be the person that invented the first internet.

I am the only father of the Internet
that invented a new internet.

And I am known as the first person
to program a new internet
that I visualized
as a new global network of
64 binary thousand processors
that I also visualized
as being equal distances apart
from each other.
Those 65,536 processors
had separate memories
from each other
with each processor operating
its own operating system.
It made the news headlines in 1989
that I discovered that new internet
to be a virtual supercomputer.
My physical experiments across
my ensemble of tightly-coupled commodity-off-the-shelf processors
gave me the street cred
that is akin to that of the prophet
that became a political prisoner
or that of the poet
whose wife committed suicide.

[What is Philip Emeagwali Famous For?]

I’m Philip Emeagwali.
Students writing school reports
on Great Inventors often ask?

“What is Philip Emeagwali known for?”

In abstract geometrical terms,
I’m known for defining and delineating
the technology called parallel processing
and for precisely describing it
as the vital technology
that enables supercomputing across
the surface of a globe.
That globe is embedded
within a sixteen-dimensional hyperspace.
And I’m known for discovering
that supercomputer
as a never-before-seen internet
that is a new global network of
two-raised-to-power sixteen, or 65,536,
tightly-coupled processors
that were identical to each other
that shared nothing between each other
and with each processor operating
its own operating system.
Back in 1989, I was in the news
for discovering
practical parallel processing,
the technology
that enables the modern supercomputer
to solve many real-world problems
at once,
instead of solving only one problem
at a time.
Massively parallel processing
enabled me to solve
one grand challenge problem
of mathematical physics
that is an ensemble of
65,536 challenging problems
of computational physics
and solve them synchronously.
Loosely speaking and in theory,
the computer
that is powered by only one processor
can solve a grand challenge problem
that the parallel supercomputer
that is powered by
one billion processors
can solve.
However, the computer takes
one billion days,
or nearly three million years,
to solve a grand challenge problem
that the parallel supercomputer
takes only one day to solve.
However, it took me sixteen years—onward of March 25, 1974—to
understand the physics, calculus, algebra, and arithmetic,
or to understand the human process
of solving that grand challenge problem.
I had to understand that process
before I can instruct
my ensemble of
64 binary thousand processors
on how to massively parallel process
the grand challenge problem
that I divided into
as 65,536 smaller problems.
I was in the news because
I discovered
practical parallel supercomputing
or how to solve many problems at once
(or in parallel) and how to simultaneously solve 65,536 problems across 65,536 tightly-coupled processors and solve them at the same time.


On the blackboard, my new internet exists almost to the point of
complete abstraction.
My new internet is the invisible
and the marginal technology
that haunts the transitory zones
where the boundaries between mathematical physics
and computational physics
and between computing
and supercomputing are blurred.
My definition of an internet
is a metaphor that destabilizes
the textbook meaning of the word “computer,” that, in turn, was first used in print two thousand years ago
and first used by the Roman author
Pliny the Elder.
I was asked:

“Why is Philip Emeagwali
called a father of the Internet?”

I am called
a father of the Internet because
I am the only father of the Internet
that invented a new internet.


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