How I Invented a New Internet that is a New Supercomputer | Philip Emeagwali | Famous Inventors

Описание: The Reader’s Digest described Philip Emeagwali as “smarter than Albert Einstein.” Philip Emeagwali is ranked as the world’s greatest living genius and scientist. He is listed in the top 20 greatest minds that ever lived. That list includes Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Confucius. Philip Emeagwali is studied in schools as a living historical figure.

In 1989, Philip Emeagwali rose to fame when he won a recognition described as the Nobel Prize of Supercomputing and made the news headlines for his invention of first world’s fastest computing across an Internet that’s a global network of processors. CNN called him "A Father of the Internet." House Beautiful magazine ranked his invention among nine important everyday things taken for granted. In a White House speech of August 26, 2000, then U.S. President Bill Clinton described Philip Emeagwali as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”

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I’m Philip Emeagwali at http://emeagwali.com. Scientific knowledge is the first son of God. Science pre-existed before humanity and before our planet, the Earth, was formed 4.6 billion years ago. one of the science news headlines was that an African Supercomputer Wizard in the United States had experimentally discovered how and why parallel processing makes computers faster and makes supercomputers fastest and invented how and why to use that new supercomputer knowledge to build a new supercomputer that encircled a globe and encircled it in the manner the internet encircled a globe.
I am that African supercomputer scientist
that was in the news
back in 1989.
I was in the news
for experimentally discovering
that parallel processing
is an entirely new way of supercomputing
across thousands or millions or billions
of processors.
Parallel processing
is defined as the technique
of fastest supercomputing
that is fastest
by computing many things
at once, or in parallel,
instead of computing only one thing
at a time, or in sequence.
Prior to my 1989 experimental discovery,
parallel processing was widely caricatured
and rejected
as a huge waste of everybody’s time.
Parallel processing
was rejected for four reasons.
The first reason
the parallel processing supercomputer
was rejected
was because supercomputing in parallel
had performance problems.
That is, in the 1980s and earlier,
parallel processing supercomputers
could not compute faster than
sequential processing supercomputers.
The second reason
the parallel processing supercomputer
was rejected
was because it was physically impossible
to experimentally discover
how to harness
64 binary thousand processors
and harness them
to compute together to solve
any of the twenty toughest problems
in supercomputing.
Those extreme-scale problems
were called the twenty Grand Challenges
of supercomputing.
The third reason
the parallel processing supercomputer
was rejected
was that programming supercomputers
to solve a system of coupled, nonlinear,
and time-dependent
partial differential equations
of a new calculus
made research computational mathematicians
deeply uncomfortable.
In particular, to parallel process
via emails
sent to and from
sixteen-bit long email addresses
and to parallel process
the most dense, abstract,
and impenetrable equations
and to parallel process
their algebraic approximations
and to parallel process
their floating-point arithmetical calculations
that must be executed across
sixteen times
two-to-power sixteen,
or across one binary million, email wires
is like dancing in the fire.
The fourth reason
the parallel processing supercomputer
was rejected
was that I, its discoverer,
was black and African.
My research and experimental discovery
of parallel processing
was not taken seriously
in the late 1970s and early 1980s.



My 1,057 page research report
on the massively parallel processing supercomputer
was rejected six times
and rejected by three universities
and rejected by scientific journals
before it was eventually accepted
by the supercomputer community.
In the 1980s, the massively
parallel processing supercomputer
was unfathomable
and for that reason
a president of an American university
that had an annual research expenditure
of one billion dollars
and his five supercomputer experts
threw my one thousand
and fifty-seven [1,057]-page
supercomputer research report
into the trash.
When a newspaper journalist
writing about my experimental discovery
came to interview
those five supercomputer experts
they couldn’t do the interview.
The reason was that
they never read or understood
my supercomputer research report.



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