What is Philip Emeagwali Known For? | African American Inventors and their Inventions

I'm Philip Emeagwali. I’m often asked: “What’s the one thing supercomputers can do now that they couldn't do 30 years ago?” My answer was this: The fastest supercomputer of today is one hundred million times faster than the fastest supercomputer of 30 years ago. That fastest supercomputer is powered by ten million six hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred [10,649,600] commodity-off-the-shelf processors. Each of those ten million processors is proof that parallel computing is not a huge waste of everybody’s time, as was alleged in the June 14, 1976 issue
of the Computer World magazine.
Thirteen years after that negative article
in the Computer World,
I saved everybody’s time by
experimentally discovering
—on the Fourth of July 1989—
how to reduce 180 computer-years
of time-to-solution
to only one supercomputer-day
of time-to-solution.
I experimentally discovered
how to put
65,536 processors, or as many computers, inside one supercomputer
That is, I experimentally discovered
a new internet.
My experimental discovery
was the new knowledge
of how computers can compute faster
and how supercomputers
can compute fastest.
I experimentally discovered
how to compute faster
and how to do so by a factor of 65,536.
That experimental discovery
of the massively parallel processing supercomputer
made the news headlines.
That experimental discovery
was reported in the June 20, 1990 issue
of The Wall Street Journal.
That experimental discovery
is the reason American students
are writing school reports
on the contributions of

Philip Emeagwali
to the development of the computer.


Who Stole My New Supercomputer?

Back in 1974, parallel processing
was a future computer industry.
For that reason,
my parallel processing
supercomputer research
was largely ignored and I worked alone
for the subsequent sixteen years.
The inventor
hid the struggles and obstacles
he overcame
and hid them
to make his invention appear
as if it was invented
in one brilliant Eureka Moment!
It took me fifteen years
to invent the new supercomputer
that was read in fifteen minutes.
During those fifteen years,
I was ridiculed, rejected, and mocked
as the bush fowl
that crowed
in the language of another village.
For me, Philip Emeagwali,
I defined massively parallel processing
as my technological quest
for the speed of now
from the supercomputer of tomorrow.
I did so because
the supercomputer of today
will become the computer of tomorrow.
In my quest
for the fastest supercomputer,
the details did not matter
as long as the ending is happy.
After 1989, my massively parallel processing supercomputer discovery
became politicized.
The obsession of haters
was to knock me off my perch.
After 1989,
a team of American supercomputer scientists
tried to steal the credit
for the new supercomputer
that I invented alone.
For the four decades onward of 1974,
I held those new supercomputer thieves
at bay.
After forty-four years
of their rampant criticisms and derisions
and mockeries
of the new supercomputer
that I invented alone,
that team of thieves
started claiming the credit
for the new supercomputer
that I invented alone.
Those thieves told everybody
that they invented the new supercomputer
that encircled the globe
in the way the internet does.
They stole my original drawings
and renamed my new supercomputer
from [quote unquote]
“Philip Emeagwali Supercomputer.”
They put their names on my invention.
My name was completely erased
as the sole inventor
of my new supercomputer.
My invention of a new supercomputer
that was comprised of
an ensemble of commodity processors
that were connected
and that were connected
as a new internet
was stolen by supercomputer scientists
who publicly condemned my new internet
and mocked it since 1974.
To avoid legal prosecution
and public shaming,
they stole my new supercomputer
under a pseudonym, or false name.
That was the most audacious theft
in the history of the computer.
That theft
brings into question
their honesty
and moral character.
They stole the credit
for the invention
of my new supercomputer
that was a new internet
and stole my new technology
under a number of false identities
and fluid pseudonyms
and stole my new computer
under a number of throw-away
email addresses
and throw-away
mobile telephone numbers.

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