How I Invented Parallel Supercomputing | Philip Emeagwali | African Inventors and their Inventions

I'm Philip Emeagwali at http://emeagwali.com. The late 20th century African history
shifted from exploits in battlefields
to the fight against apartheid
in South Africa
that was led by Nelson Mandela. I believe that by the mid-21st century African history
will shift towards contributions
made by Africans—in the continent
and in the diaspora—and made to
human progress.
The most important contributions
that Africans can make
include discoveries and inventions
that will expand
the body of human knowledge
and that will make planet Earth
a better place for all beings.
I am the subject of
school inventor reports
because I contributed to the development
of the massively parallel supercomputer.
The parallel supercomputer
demanded more from its inventors.
I had to have
an intimate understanding
of the locations of every processor
that outlined and defined
my ensemble of
64 binary thousand processors.
I had to have
a deep understanding
in sixteen-dimensional hyperspace
of how to message-pass
my two-raised-to-power sixteen
initial-boundary value problems
of mathematical physics
and how to email
the associated codes across
my sixteen times
two-raised-to-power sixteen,
or 1,048,576, bi-directional
email pathways, and how to route
my 64 binary thousand emails
to my sixteen bit long email addresses.
Each email address
had no @ sign
or dot com suffix.
In June 1974, I was programming
a conventional supercomputer
and using the machinery
to sequentially solve
a system of linear equations of algebra.
Fast forward fifteen years,
to the Fourth of July 1989,
I became the first person
to figure out
how to harness a new internet
that is a new global network of
64 binary processors
and how to use those processors
to cooperatively and simultaneously
solve
a grand challenge problem
that is otherwise impossible to solve.

An invention only occurs
when its inventor crossed a boundary of human knowledge
that had never been crossed before.

For me, Philip Emeagwali,
I crossed into
the never-before-understood
frontier of knowledge
of the parallel supercomputer
that is the world’s fastest computer.
I was the first person
to cross that frontier
and I crossed it
at 8:15 in the morning of July 4, 1989
in Los Alamos, New Mexico,
United States.
Shortly after my parallel supercomputing discovery,
the news headlines became:
“African Supercomputer Genius
Wins Top U.S. Prize.”
Without parallel processing,
the supercomputer of today
will not exist.
I was in the news headlines because
I discovered
how to solve the toughest problems arising in STEM fields.
I discovered
how to solve real world problems
and how to solve them
across a new internet
that is de facto
one seamless, cohesive machinery
that is a virtual supercomputer.
My quest for the fastest supercomputer
that will compute across a new internet
that is a new global network
of 64 binary thousand processors
began on June 20, 1974
and began as science fiction
and as a theory,
or an idea that is not positively true.

My Origin as a Supercomputer Scientist

My supercomputer quest
began in a singular
central processing unit
that was my metaphor
for the computer
and that was a mere acorn
(or the seed of an oak tree).
By the summer of 1974
and at age nineteen,
I was only mentioned twice
in newspapers,
first in a newspaper in Nigeria
and then in the United States.
The name of a 17-year-old
Philip Emeagwali
first appeared in 1972
in the Science Column
of the Daily Times newspaper of Nigeria.
The photograph
of a 19-year-old Philip Emeagwali
appeared on the cover
of a local newspaper
that circulated in the cities of Monmouth
and Independence
(Oregon, United States).
That Oregonian newspaper article
was published
within six days after my interview
that occurred on August 9, 1974.
 


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