A Father of the Internet | Philip Emeagwali

The Reader’s Digest described Philip Emeagwali as “smarter than Albert Einstein.” Philip Emeagwali is often 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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1.1.1 Who’s Philip Emeagwali?
I’m Philip Emeagwali.
I experimentally discovered
what makes computers faster
and what makes supercomputers
fastest.
I experimentally discovered
how to use the modern supercomputer
to solve the toughest problems
in large-scale computational physics.
I experimentally discovered
how to solve those grand challenge problems
and solve them
across a small internet
that is a global network of
64 binary thousand
central processing units.
The most computation-intensive problems in physics
include problems arising from encoding
the laws of motion of physics
and encoding those laws
into the partial differential equations
of calculus
that are, in turn, reduced to
a large-scale system of equations
of algebra
and using those algebraic equations
to foresee unforeseen
global warming
or to recover unrecoverable
oil and gas
or to solve many computation-intensive problems
arising in large-scale
computational physics.
As I discovered in the 1980s,
that massively parallel machine
and previously unimagined internet
is a supercomputer,
or the fastest computer, de facto.
1.1.2 Introduction: History of Fastest Supercomputers
My quest was for the fastest supercomputer,
or a massively parallel supercomputer,
that is fastest out of the rawness
of its raw processors.
In nineteen forty-six [1946],
the fastest supercomputer represented
the first generation of the Information Age.
In nineteen fifty [1950],
the fastest supercomputer was powered by vacuum tubes.
The supercomputers of the nineteen sixties [1960s]
represented the second generation
of the Information Age.
The fastest supercomputers
of the nineteen sixties [1960s]
were powered by transistors.
The fastest supercomputers
of the nineteen seventies [1970s]
were powered by only one processor.
The paradigm in fast supercomputing
shifted in nineteen eighty-nine [1989].
Before nineteen eighty-nine [1989],
the fastest computations
were recorded on a supercomputer
that computed
with only one central processing unit.
That singular processor
was the heartbeat of the supercomputer.
1.1.3 How I Discovered the Modern Supercomputer
To discover is to understand something
that was previously misunderstood
and understand it in a new way.
I understood a global network of
the slowest 65,536
central processing units
that was previously misunderstood.
I understood that technology
to be also an internet
whereas others misunderstood it
to be only a parallel processing machine.
I understood that technology
to be a supercomputer
whereas the textbooks of the 1980s considered it impossible
for a parallel processing machine
to compute faster than a supercomputer.
The established truth
in the textbooks was called Amdahl’s Law. In the most quoted scientific paper
in supercomputing
that was published in April 1967,
Gene Amdahl wrote that
it will forever be impossible
to achieve a speed increase
of a factor of eight
and achieve it by using
eight central processing units
to power a supercomputer.
Twenty-three years after Amdahl’s Law,
it made the news headlines
that I—Philip Emeagwali—
discovered that the impossible is, in fact, possible,
namely, achieve a speed increase
in supercomputing of 64 binary thousand
and achieve that speed increase
with as many central processing units.
I began programming supercomputers
on June 20, 1974 at age nineteen.
I began programming supercomputers
in the Computer Center
at 1800 SW Campus Way,
Corvallis, Oregon, United States.
I began supercomputing
by programming supercomputers
that were powered by only

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