Inventing the First Supercomputer as We Know the Technology Today | Philip Emeagwali

Inventing the First Supercomputer as We Know the Technology Today | Philip Emeagwali

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[Music] time magazine called him the unsung hero behind the internet cnn called him a father of the internet president bill clinton called him one of the great minds of the information age he has been voted history's greatest scientist of african descent he is philip emigolli he's coming to trinidad and tobago to launch the 2008 kwame toure lecture series on sunday june 8th at the jfk auditorium university at 5 pm the emancipation support committee invites you to come and hear this inspirational mind address the theme crossing new frontiers to conquer today's challenges this lecture is one you cannot afford to miss admission is free so be there on sunday june 8 5 p.m at the jfk auditorium news in davasta thank you i'm philippe in 1989 i was in the news for providing the quote-unquote final proof that super computing across the world's lowest computers is not science fiction science deals with facts while fiction deals with truths fastest computing across 64 000 human computers was first to rise as science fiction back on february 1 1922 but for seven decades the idea of fastest computing in tandem and across thousands of computers was dismissed for the lack of evidence in those years the technology could not be harnessed and used to power the world's fastest computers my contribution to computer science that's the subject of school aces is this i experimentally confirmed the first world's fastest computing across the world's lowest processors i discovered the quote unquote finding proof that the slowest processing across thousands of processors could use the fastest computing i made that super computing discovery 67 years later on july 4 1989 in los alamos new mexico usa solving the world's biggest problem across immediate processors is to the world's fastest computer what playing games with only one processor is to the regular computer parallel processing takes computer science into a new epoch where millions of processors work together to power only one supercomputer at 8 15 in the morning of july 4 1989 in los alamos new mexico usa i became the first person to stand at the father's frontier of the world's fastest computer i was the first person to guess out towards a non-territories that we are not on the map of computer science i guessed across an ensemble of the slowest processors to discover the world's fastest computing which was then unknown to mathematicians and physicists who needed that new knowledge to solve their most difficult problems that then unknown field of knowledge is where unexpected and unimagined new computer science new physics and new mathematics are almost guaranteed to be discovered the world's fastest computing represents a remarkable confluence of new ideas from the frontiers of mathematics to those of physics and computer science my contribution to computer science is this i was the first person to synthesize the new multidisciplinary ideas and do so with new ideas of my own i synthesize ideas to discover that the world's fastest computing hid in the powers of an ensemble of the world's slowest processors it's not only the supercomputer that would benefit from my discovery of the fastest computing across this lowest processors our understanding of the supercomputer will increase over the coming years i believe that the internet will evolve to become one coherent computer or a planet-sized supercomputer one billion years ago our pre-human ancestors look like apes in one million years or a million our post-human gods my ridicule our descendants as looking like humans we might have only living silicon as our post-human gods that could achieve immortality in the distant future the aliens on earth could be us and because human gods on distant planets could be our descendants i envision post-human gods of yemeni as thinking across a cosmic super brain that is an artificial intelligence that human-made genius would spread across an epic landscape to become their eighth continent that powerful brain will enshroud our seven land continents and ensure the earth we get their minimum electronic wires i foresee our descendants being part humans and path-taking machines the grandchildren of our grandchildren may not use their internet the way we use our internet their internet will be within them while our internet is around us because human gods will not need super computers because there could be infinitely fast computing machineries in 1989 it made the news headlines that i finished a mile had experimentally discovered how to solve some of the most complete intensive problems in mathematics and physics i was covered stories because i discovered how to solve the most difficult problems in mathematics and physics and solve them with the world's fastest computer that was powered by the world's lowest processors furthermore i invented how to solve the hardest problems called extreme skill computational free dynamics likewise i invented how to solve difficult problems across a new internet that's a new global network of up to 1 billion coupled processors each process so operated its operating system and shared nothing i was in the news because i invented a new internet that's a new global network of millions or billions of processors i invented how to parallel process or how to execute a billion set of computer instructions and how to execute them at once or how to execute them in parallel and across a billion processors my invention of how the world's fastest computer can be built from the slowest processors enables the super computer to compute a billion times faster than the regular computer i began my quest for that new internet in 1974 in oregon usa i began as a janitor mathematician who put away a slide rule that was also called an analog computer that he bought in 1970 and brought from a nature nigerian in late 1970 it seemed like i was the only person with a slight rule in norwich nigeria i also put away my log table that was my only computing age of 1967 at our home that was the nurse's waters of general hospital above nigeria i put away both my slide rule and log table to learn how to compute fastest and do so when solving compute intensive systems of equations in algebra in 1974 in cabalis oregon usa i learned how to use the fastest computers to solve those equations arising in computational linear algebra that we are impossible to solve on the blackboard or solve with pencil and paper i learned how to solve a huge system of equations of modern algebra and solve them on a super computer that was powered by only one electronic brain as a research mathematical physicist who came of age in the 1970s and 80s i understood how those difficult mathematical problems arose from some laws of physics i understood how the new calculus were derived and how those laws of physics were encoded into the system of partial differential equations beyond the frontier of calculus they are called the nine philip m aguilar equations i made my debut as a computational mathematician on one of the world's fastest computers i began super computing because i needed to solve a huge system of equations in algebra i began my super computer quest on thursday june 20 1974 in marmot oregon in the pacific northwest region of the united states i entered my programs into a time shared super computer that was at 181 southwest campus way kabulis oregon i submitted my executable programs that were written in high level programming languages such as basic and fortran and entered them through my remote job entry terminal basic is the acronym for beginners all purpose symbolic instruction code it's a general purpose high level programming language fortran is the acronym for formula translation it's the first choice programming language of engineers and mathematicians and other creators of scientific algorithms my knowledge of super computers grew over the decade and a half that followed june 20 1974. in the 1970s and 80s and as a black and african born born in the usa conducting a decade and half long multi-disciplinary research in computational physics i was effectively banned from using super computers so i couldn't conduct research on vector super computers that cost about 40 million dollars each in the early 1980s my access to this vastus vector supercomputers were revoked after they discovered that i was black and african born it was revoked at various institutions such as the u.s national weather service camp springs maryland and revolt from an albert michigan from the for the super computer center in san diego california that was operated by the u.s national science

foundation in july 1985 i was tentatively offered a job as a super computer scientist at the great lakes environmental research laboratories of the u.s national oceanic and atmospheric administration in anaheim michigan for practical purposes i was offered the job via telephone when they presumed that i was white two months later on about september 24 1985 i was flown into an albert michigan to give my super computer hiring research lecture and do so in the lecture auditorium of the great lakes environmental research laboratories in ann arbor michigan when the decision makers knew that i was black and african they decided not to hire me as their super computer scientist fast forward four and a half years after that rejection newspapers in an alpha michigan we are writing stories about an african super computer genius named philippe emma i was in the news because i had won the highest award for my contribution to super computing at the great lakes environmental research laboratories the white supremacists we are shocked to learn that the black super computer scientists that they interviewed but rejected four and a half years earlier is in the news for inventing the first super computing across the world's lowest computers in 1989 i was in the news for the scope for the discovery of fast test computing that was a scientific discovery that i was supposed to have made at the great lakes environmental research laboratories because i was black and african i wasn't permitted to make my super computing discovery in another michigan as an aside a search through the 8 billion videos that were posted on youtube will reveal that nobody in an above michigan or anywhere else in the world then and now had or has the commanding grasp of mathematics physics and computer science that was needed to contribute the new knowledge that would enable the fastest computing across the stores processors as well as deliver lectures on their contributions to super computing that is on par with 1000 closed captioned videos that i posted on my youtube channel named emma aguali this gap in scientific knowledge was widely written about within an hour by michigan and beyond research scientists in in an album of michigan revealed my discovery of the world's fastest computing their reference was documented in a special issue of aguile in their flagship publication called the michigan today that february 1991 issue of the michigan today was titled one of the world's fastest humans the michigan today is a working publication that's mailed to 610 000 university alumni the pdf version of that february 1991 issue on philippe emerge can be searched for and read online as an aside that michigan today issue on philippe was used to develop two nationwide law school admission tests in september 2009 the lsat or law school had mission tests of the usa had a reading of a reading comp reading comprehensions section that focused on philip m aguala and that drew from that michigan today issue of february 1991 and in december 2009 the same american law school admission test also focused on my contributions to computer science and grew from that michigan today issue of february 1991 that reading comprehension section of the american healthset as well as millions of school instincts on philippe my world put me on the same platform with albert einstein and within shakespeare giving that level of recognition to a young black sub-saharan african will always incur extreme jealousies from white supremacists who argue that albert einstein has a higher iq than philippe emargali in an alpha michigan of 1989 many white supremacists were sad and jealous for all the fame and attention that i was getting the jealous ones among them had the shaky feeling that they could win that nobel prize of super computing and do so if they had access to a super computer they had access to supercomputers since 1946 but they lacked the scientific knowledge that i possessed and exhibited in my 1000 broadcast and youtube videos so i was rejected on september 24 1985 in an alpha michigan solely because i was black and sub-saharan african not because i liked the intellect and knowledge i was the first person to discover the world's fastest computing as it's known today by the early 1980s i was ahead in the super computer race for the fastest calculation in the world that could be executed across the slowest processors in the world but as a black super computer scientist who worked alone i was perceived as a threat instead of welcome as a contributor to super computing in the early to mid 1980s i was blacklisted and nine access to vector supercomputers that were then the fastest in the world i was forced to back off just before i could make a super computer breakthrough in 1989 it made the news headlines that an african super computer genius who worked alone had won the highest award in super computing and won it for inventing how to solve a set of 65 506 difficult mathematical problems in life skill computation of flea dynamics at its compute intensive core each mathematical problem was a system of 366 equations of computational linear algebra i solved each system on the slowest processor in the world i thought those problems across my ensemble of 65 536 processors each processor was coupled to its 16 nearest neighboring processors each processor shared nothing with its nearest neighboring processes in the news articles i was described as the african super computer inventor who invented how to solve those world record algebraic equations and solve them across a new internet that's a new global network of 65 506 off the shelf processors that were identical to each other i was the internet scientist in the news in 1989 my scientific discovery of the fastest computing across a new internet that's outlined by up to 1 billion processors occurred on the 4th of july 1989. my invention was mentioned in the june 2019 issue of the wall street journal that was my contribution to mathematics that contribution has diverse everyday applications in science and engineering such as weather forecasting that scientific discovery was my iraqi moment in invention as a new internet scientist it was my iraq movement because i discovered two new internets i terrorized my first internet in 1974 my first internet was the super computer technology which i constructively reduced to practice as my second internet that was comprised of my new global network of the 65 506 slowest processors in the world i programmed them in 1989 to execute the fastest computations in the world and execute them while solving the most difficult problems that arise in mathematics and physics my first internet was unknown in the computer textbooks that were published in 1974 that was the year i made my debut in super computing at 1800 southwest campus with kabalys oregon usc my second internet was unknown in 1989 yet i recorded the fastest computer speed and recorded it in los alamos new mexico usa my invention of how to solve up to a billion difficult mathematical problems at once and solve them with a one problem to work process of correspondence and solve them across a new internet his reason for writing school essays titled what unquote the contributions of phoenix valley to the development of the computer because i wasn't allowed to conduct my scientific research and do so in conventional vector super computing i was forced to change direction and conduct my research on how to harness the 65 506 slowest processors in the world and how to use those processes to invent a new supercomputer that is beyond super the life lesson that i learned from those rejections was this when one door closes another door opens when the door that led to the room that was housing the conventional that the supercomputer closed the door that led to the building housing the most powerful super computer also opened i'm a nigerian-born life skill computational free dynamics engineer who came of age in the usa and in the 1970s and 80s my test bed super computing problems for my ensemble of 64 binary 000 processors range from global atmospheric flows to the fluid dynamics within an oil producing field that's up to 7.7 miles or 12.4 kilometers deep and that covers an area that's often the size of mogadishu somalia as a computational physicist my supreme quest is to match physics models and simulations to the actual geophysical fluid dynamics being simulated one of the most difficult mathematical problems it's global climate modeling it has an associated initial boundary value problem that's formulated at the crossroad we are modern calculus computational physics and fastest computing intersect that compute intensive problem is mathematically defined over a physical domain for my global climate models i visualize the geometrical shape of the globe of the global warming problem as a globe that has a diameter of 7 900 miles that globe was enshrouded by a concentric swim that has an inner diameter of seven thousand nine hundred miles and an outer diameter of seven thousand nine miles the inner diameter of that globe was my geometrical metaphor for the surface of the earth the outer diameter of that globe represents the limits of the atmosphere of the earth my contributions to the invention of the first world's fastest computer as it's done today we are this at 8 15 in the morning of the 4th of july 1989 in los alamos new mexico usa i jumped in joy because i discovered the fastest computing across the slowest processors i invented the technology as the new world's fastest computer that's defined across the slowest processors in the world that new super computer that made the new set lines wasn't a computer by or in itself i visualized my new super computer as my new internet in reality that new internet was a new global network of off-the-shelf processors that we are parallel processing as one seamless coherent and gigantic supercomputer and computing together to solve the world's most important and complex challenges i first discovered the first world's fastest computing across my tourist internet that's a new global network of 64 binary thousand or two raised to power 16 processors my processors were identical and shared nothing i visualized and raised my 65 526 processors as identical computers that were evenly distributed around the earth i visualize those two rest of our 16 identical computers as in equal distances apart and with much uniformity in processes and regularity in email wires over the 15 years that followed june 20 1974 in kabulis oregon usa my tourist internet evolved towards a new global network of 64 binary thousand processors that i visualized as encircling a ball in my 16 dimensional hybrid space i called that ball a hyper ball yes later that name hyper ball was replaced by the current name what on board emma walling computer i visualize the emma quality computer as shaped like a hypercube that's tightly circumscribed by a hyperbola the world's fastest computing besides at the crossroads where new calculus the most large-scale computational physics and the fastest computing intersect because fastest computing across a billion processors is a highly multi-disciplinary field of study it's problematic to explain where the mathematics ended and where the physics began and really computer science continued as a super computer scientist who came of age in the 1980s been identified as a mathematician or a physicist or a computer scientist in the 1970s and 80s fastest computing across the slowest processors was very complicated and was marked as ridiculed as science fiction and as a tremendous waste of everybody's time in the 1980s i was the only full-time programmer of the most massively parallel supercomputer ever built that supercomputing supercomputer was powered by 65 536 processors today the world's fastest computer is programmed by up to 10 000 mathematicians and scientists the reason i programmed such machinery alone back in the 1980s was that nobody else understood how to execute the fastest computing and do so across the slowest processors and record super computing speeds that's a million times faster than a computer that's powered by only one processor my contributions to computer science where this i discovered how to harness millions of processors and use them to reduce the world clock time to solution and reduce that time from 30 000 years within one processor to one day across a new internet that's a new global network of 10.65 million of the shelf processors

my super computer invention occurred on july 4 1989 in los alamos new mexico usa my invention of the first super supercomputing across the world's lowest computers that outline an internet building news headlines because it indicated progress in computer science and resulted in a fundamental change that changed the way we will look at the regular computers of tomorrow that could evolve from the fastest computers of today the world's fastest computer speed that i discovered and that made new set lines was this the process and power of the world's fastest computer which now occupies the space of a southern field can be increased to the power of a tourist supercomputer that could ensure the earth in fort coming centuries the world's fastest computer can wear more than a billion pounds or eight thousand africans the super computer of the future could be powered by trillions of processors that will be communicating as an internet that enshrines the earth that planet-sized computer could enable discoveries across science and industry in the 1980s i couldn't conduct my research on how to harness 1 million processors and use them to solve the hardest problems in science engineering and medicine as a super computer scientist i came of age in the 1970s and 80s and in the usa in those two decades it was impossible for a black african-born but naturalized u.s citizens such as myself to gain the top secret clearance that was needed to work with the world's most powerful supercomputers the fastest computers are used to simulate the explosions from detonating nuclear bombs the u.s national laboratories not universities and corporations we are the primary places that i could conduct my research in fastest computing across the stores processes in the 1980s i had the vegetable fields that i was on a hot track to discover and invent how and why a million processors that competed in tandem could be harnessed to make future computers faster and super computers fastest in retrospect i was pursuing a super computer invention namely parallel computing that couldn't be invented under the vision of any u.s national laboratory or or being invented as part of a super computing research team anywhere in academia that was the fact that i was black and african was the reason i wasn't hired as a research super computer scientist in the 1970s and 80s in my unsuccessful hiring talks that i delivered in u.s government laboratories i provided broad broad brush strokes to research computational physicists and to research computational mathematicians back then my tourists on how to solve the hardest problems and solve them across immediate processors we are dismissed as science fiction my idea was ridiculed as a beautiful jewelry that lacked an experimental confirmation that beautiful jewelry was my new internet that i visualized as a new global network of 65 526 off the shelf processors that shared nothing but we are in dialogue with each other my broad broad brushstroke was to solve the most difficult problems in mathematics science and engineering my super computing quest was to discover how to solve them across my ensemble of two rest of our 16 processors that were coupled to each other in the 1970s and 80s the world's fastest computer speed that i recorded on july 4 1989 was marked as a huge embarrassing mistake and dismissed as science fiction achieving the fastest computing across the slowest processes was really called as an empty pipe dream in 1974 and in cabalis oregon i made a leap of my imagination i left from a juris global network of 64 000 human computers that were equal distances about around the earth to my to rise global network of 64 binary thousand computers that were also uniformly distributed around the earth i met that myth of my imagination because that's what humans do humans extrapolate from the known to the unknown the genius is the ordinary person that found the extraordinary in the ordinary the need for faster computers isn't going anywhere the super computer will have defined the political and economic powers of the 21st century the nation that controls the technology that powers the world's fastest computer controls high-stakes seismic imaging and petroleum reservoir simulation both technologies must be used to nail down the exact locations of crude oil and natural gas that we have formed up to 541 million years ago the nations that control petroleum technologies control the 65 000 oil fields in the world this is the reason china wants to control the technology that powers the world's fastest computers doing so will enable china to take the first step in controlling some of the 159 producing oil fields in nigeria therefore it will not come as a surprise that the saudi arabian government placed armed guards around its most powerful supercomputer one of the world's fastest computers is used to simulate the recovery of crude oil and natural gas from the vast oil fields of saudi arabia saudi arabia classified the super computer simulations of the oil fields as state secrets there are still secrets because the super computer is the key to the petroleum dependent economy of saudi arabia this super computer is the magical lock that sort of stick opens the oil field that's buried up to 7.7 miles or 12.4

kilometers deep in the circle in ireland in russia's far east and up to twice the size of the state of anambra nigeria the world's fastest computer is not only the pinnacle of the computer industry but it's also big business in recent years the industry grossed 45 billion dollars a year i'm the only father of the internet that invented an internet the first internet that i invented was a new global network of processes i designed that internet to be congruent with the atmosphere of the earth i reasoned that the surface of the earth is shrouded by a 62 mile deep ocean of air moisture and water such as the rivers lakes oceans and even fluids like crude oil and natural gas furthermore i visualize that 62 mile deep body of fluid as a concentric swell with an inner diameter of seven thousand nine hundred and seventeen and a half miles or twelve thousand seven hundred and forty two kilometers not only that i visualize that concentric strength has translated into sixty five thousand five hundred and ten six a wall-sized ocean of fleets that extended from the bottom of the oceans to the uppermost boundary of the earth's atmosphere i had to visualize the shape of my new internet as follows my new internet must circumscribe a globe that has a diameter of seven thousand nine hundred and seventeen and a half miles or 12 742 kilometers i defined my new internet as outlined as a new global network of 65 506 processors that has a one-to-one correspondence with 65 506 equal sized physical domains each processor within my new internet will run one climate model the world's fastest computer occupies the footprint of a football field and internally communicates across a total of 200 miles or till or about 322 kilometers of cables and it cost 1 billion 250 million dollars each that world's fastest computer is the top dog in mathematics where is the measurable paradigm shift or the step changing discovery that's the greatest milestone in the history of the computer where is the continental drift of supercomputing the increase in the speed of the supercomputer is the centralized sense of what defines progress in computing the world's fastest computer will become the laptop computer of tomorrow speed is the essence of the computer therefore a paradigm shift or a change in the way we think about the computer occurs when there's a quantum leap in computer science according to almost law the speed of the computer is expected to double every 18 months however that factor of two increase in computer speed is merely evolutionary and conventional that factor of two increase wasn't a paradigm shifting discovery visualization was the key instrument which i used to invent my new internet that's a new global network of off-the-shelf processors which defined and outlined my new supercomputer i used the cube as my metaphor for my new internet and i visualized a processor as corresponding to a vertex of the cube and a better bidirectional evil wire as corresponding to each edge of the cube furthermore i visualized my internet as a cube that was tightly satisfied by a sphere for my world's fastest computing emails that made the news headlines in 1989 i visualized my cube as a hyper cube in the 16th dimension that was circumscribed by a hypersphere in the 16th dimension i visualized my new internet as defined and outlined by a new global network of 16 times to raise to power 16 email wires or a network of one binary million or one million forty eight thousand five hundred and seventy six bi-directional edges of that hypercube i visualize my email wires as projected and has etched onto the fifteen dimensional hybrid surface of that 16 dimensional hypersphere that photon would set describe it finally i visualize those edges as my metaphors for my 1 million 48 thousand 576 bi-directional email pathways that emanated toward and from my new global network of 65 506 off-the-shelf processors that was my new internet i visualized my processes as equal distances apart and as corresponding to the as many vertices of the hypercube on that cyber surface for those contributions i'm the only father of the internet that invented an internet at 8 15 in the morning on july 4 1989 in los alamos new mexico usa i discovered how to increase the speed of the fastest computer and do so by a factor of 65 536 i recorded my computer speed up across as many processors on that day i also discovered how to in truly increase that speed by a factor of 1 billion across 1 billion processors i visualize those 1 billion processors as uniformly and circling a globe and doing so as a new internet that new internet was where i executed the world's fastest computing for six months after my discovery of fastest computing super computer scientists were shocked at the speed of my calculations but some super computer scientists marked my discovery of the alternative way of executing the faster the world's fastest computing and using that new knowledge to solve the most difficult problems arising in mathematics the naysayers wrote that emma philippe has made a quote unquote terrible mistake those naysayers stopped laughing at me after it was announced that my discovery of the world's fastest computing has been validated i won the highest award in super computing and for the year 1989 my discovery of fastest computing built the news headlines around the world and became my signature invention it's the reason philippe wally is the subject of school issues achieving that 65 500 increase in super computer speed was a fundamental change of tectonic proportions that changed the way we look at the world's fastest computer computing across up to a billion processors was a magical change because it was both unexpected and extraordinary the reason my scientific discovery of the world's fastest computing built the news headlines was that the new technology was both unorthodox and revolutionary in the conventional paradigm of supercomputing called serial computing you can put a scientist visualized one process as computing automatically to solve one of the most difficult problems in mathematics one such problem was the initial boundary value problem arising at the frontier of calculus and large-scale computational physics the system of partial differential equations that govern such initial boundary value problems is at the mathematical and computational core of the highest resolution global climate model that must be used to foresee otherwise unforeseeable long-term global warming what separates the old and new ways of fastest computing is not the problem they solve but how they solve it in their own way mathematical problems are solved within one processor in my new way they are solved across up to one billion couple processors those processors emulate one seamless coherent and gigantic supercomputer the internet is the precursor to a planet-sized computer that will shine like a beautiful star in the attack galaxy thank [Applause] you thank you insightful and brilliant lecture

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