On the Fourth of July 1989, the U.S. Independence Day, I experimentally discovered a new supercomputer that could solve 65,536 problems at once, or that could process information in parallel. Before that invention of the Fourth of July 1989, parallel processing was dismissed as science fiction by the authors of textbooks on supercomputing. Before that invention, solving many problems at once was ridiculed as a beautiful theory that lacked an experimental confirmation. On the Fourth of July 1989, the technology of the parallel processing supercomputer became a tested reality. Before the Fourth of July 1989,
the massively parallel processing supercomputer
was like an elephant
with a super body
and the brain of an ant.
The massively parallel processing supercomputer
was a transformative technology
that moved detailed data modeling
from dream to reality.
The massively parallel processing supercomputer
is the technology
that enabled
precision petroleum reservoir simulation
of the Niger-Delta oilfields
of the southeastern region
of my country of birth, Nigeria.
The invention
of the massively parallel processing supercomputer
opened the door
for air-cooled supercomputers
with no requirement for liquid cooling.
Philip Emeagwali Supercomputer
I’m Philip Emeagwali.
I made headlines in major U.S. newspapers
for discovering
the massively parallel processing supercomputer,
such as the June 20, 1990 issue
of the Wall Street Journal.
I am a supercomputer scientist
who began programming supercomputers,
exactly sixteen years earlier,
on June 20, 1974
in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.
The supercomputer
is the world’s fastest computer.
The supercomputer
is a living machine that grows
with each increase in speed.
At 8:15 on the morning
of the Fourth of July 1989
in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States,
I experimentally discovered
the fastest supercomputer.
I invented
a new supercomputer
that computes across a new internet
that is a new global network of
65,536 tightly-coupled processors.
I mathematically and experimentally invented
how to tackle 65,536 challenging
initial-boundary value problems
arising in mathematics and physics.
I invented
how to solve those grand challenge problems
and how to solve them
in a one-to-one corresponded manner.
I invented
how to use emails
to and from sixteen-bit long addresses,
each with no @ sign or dot com suffix,
and how to use those emails
to stitch those 65,536 problems together.
I invented
how to stitch problems together
as the original grand challenge problem.
To reach that new frontier
of human knowledge
demanded new techniques and technologies,
such as a new arithmetic,
a new algebra, a new calculus,
a new computer,
and, most importantly, a new internet.
The massively parallel processing supercomputer
was not invented
by the team of 25,000
vector processing supercomputer scientists
of the 1980s.
I conducted
the parallel processing experiment
that led to the discovery
on the Fourth of July 1989
of the massively parallel processing supercomputer.
I—Philip Emeagwali—was the only person that invented
how to harness
the total supercomputer power
of 65,536 separate processors.
After my invention, the fastest one thousand supercomputers in the world
are supercomputing across
thousands or millions of
commodity-off-the-shelf processors.
That shift
from one processor
to one million processors
is the biggest paradigm shift
in the history of the computer.
Who’s Philip Emeagwali, the Discoverer of Parallel Processing?
Since 1989, school children
were asked to write a school report
on the contributions of Philip Emeagwali
to the development
of the modern supercomputer.
Back in 1989, it made the news headlines
that a lone wolf
African supercomputer wizard
the United States
had invented
how to solve
the toughest problems
arising in modern calculus
and computational physics,
and mathematically invented
how to solve
65,536 initial-boundary value problems
of modern mathematics
and invented
how to solve them at once.
That invention
occurred on the Fourth of July 1989
and is called the
“massively parallel processing supercomputer.”
I—Philip Emeagwali—
was that African supercomputer scientist
that was in the news
back in 1989.
I was in the news because
I experimentally discovered
that the fastest computing speeds
in modern supercomputing
must always be recorded
with parallel processing technology,
rather than with vector processing technology.
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