What is Philip Emeagwali Famous For? | Black Inventors and their Inventions | African History

I'm Philip Emeagwali. In 1989, I was in the news
as the African Supercomputer Genius
that won top U.S. Prize.
I was in the news because I discovered
how to produce
the world’s fastest supercomputers
and how to manufacture them
from a large ensemble
of the world’s slowest processors
that were identical to each other
that were equal distances apart
from each other
and that shared nothing
between each other.
That discovery
from my parallel supercomputing experiment of July 4, 1989
is the foundation
of the modern supercomputer
that now computes and communicates
in parallel.
That discovery
of practical parallel supercomputing
added a new pillar
for the never-ending quest
for faster and fastest supercomputers.
I discovered practical parallel supercomputing
as the new technology
that will underpin
future computers and supercomputers.

To stand at the farthest frontier
of supercomputer knowledge
was a surreal feeling
that gave me goosebumps.

On my Eureka moment
of 8:15 in the morning
of the Fourth of July 1989
in Los Alamos, New Mexico,
United States,
I saw for the first time
a never-before-seen supercomputer.
That virtual supercomputer
was beyond the computer
and is not a computer per se.
It is a new internet de facto.


Why is Philip Emeagwali important
to the world of mathematics?

Studying mathematics
and understanding
the partial differential equation
will not make the cover story
of the top mathematics publications.
I invented a new system of
partial differential equations
that was the cover story
of the May 1990 issue
of the SIAM News,
the top publication
in research mathematics.
Abstract calculus and large-scale algebra
were at the mathematical physics core
of my supercomputer invention.
My contribution
to modern mathematical knowledge
and extreme-scale computational physics is this:

I constructed algebraic algorithms
that I used to derive
a new system
of finite difference equations
of algebra
that approximated, at finite places,
my new partial differential equations
of calculus
that were defined at infinite places
and, therefore, required
infinite calculations
to solve it’s associated
initial-boundary value problem exactly.

What made the news headlines
was that I—Philip Emeagwali—discovered
how to crank up my computations
and email communications
and do so by sixteen levels
and by computing and communicating their answers
across a new internet
and doing so simultaneously within
two-raised-to-power sixteen,
or 64 binary thousand,
central processing units,
or within as many computers.
My quest was to discover
how to topple those ducks over
and like a domino.
Because I did not invent
practical parallel supercomputing
in prose,
some knowledge of that technology
is lost as I translated
my new knowledge
into a scientific report
that is further reduced to
a school inventor report
of the 12-year-old.

In retrospect, the laws of motion
of physics
were discovered three centuries
and three decades ago.
The technique of calculus
was also invented three centuries
and three decades ago.
The partial differential equation
of calculus was invented
a century and half ago.
The partial differential equation
is the recurring decimal
in computational physics,
such as extreme-scale, high-fidelity petroleum reservoir simulation
that is used to extract crude oil
and natural gas
and such as long-term
general circulation modeling
that is used to predict global warming.


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