{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Philip Emeagwali Supercomputer - Greatest Black Inventors Of All Time","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ad7158c601400019adee62/60ad716cd7a9d30019eeeaf8.jpg?height=200","description":"For the fifteen years, onward of June 20, 1974, I conducted my supercomputer research alone.\nI did so alone because I was ridiculed, mocked, and rejected by all-white research teams that were exclusively programming only sequential and vector processing supercomputers. As a black African-born supercomputer scientist in the United States, I felt like I was in exile wherever I am. \nI’m in exile in the United States. \nI was in exile in Africa.\nI was in exile \nin the then uncharted territory \nof the massively parallel processing supercomputer.\nA multidisciplinary \nsupercomputer research team \ncould comprise of one thousand \nscientists and engineers.\nEach member \nof that supercomputer research team \nwas at the frontier of knowledge \nof physics.\nOr at the frontier of knowledge \nof mathematics.\nOr at the frontier of knowledge \nof computer science.\nTo discover parallel processing \nrequired both theory and experiments\nand required a polymath,\nrather than a mathematician.\nTo invent \nthe massively parallel processing supercomputer \nrequired a polymath\nthat was simultaneously at home\nat the frontiers of physics, mathematics, \nand computer science.\nIt took me sixteen years \nof advanced training, \nonward of March 25, 1974,\nin Oregon (United States)\nas well as weekly attendances \nat 500 research seminars\nof the 1980s in the District of Columbia \nand Maryland (United States), \nto become that triple threat \nand that polymath\nthat is at home \nat the frontiers of knowledge\nin physics, mathematics, \nand computer science. \nMost importantly, \nI was the only research scientist \nthat gave massively parallel processing research lectures \nto audiences of research \ncomputational physicists \nat the United States national laboratories. \nI gave research lectures\nto research mathematicians \nat the international congress \nof mathematicians.\nI gave research lectures\nto research computer scientists\nof the two premier computer societies\nin the world, namely, \nThe Computer Society of the IEEE\nand the Association for \nComputing Machinery.\nIn the late 1970s and early ‘80s,\nI was rejected \nbecause white research scientists \ndismissed me \nbefore they heard me \ngive my research lectures\non how I invented \nthe massively parallel processing\nsupercomputer.\nThe audio and video recordings \nof my lectures on the new supercomputer\nthat I invented\nare posted at emeagwali dot com.\nTo work cohesively \nas a supercomputer research team \ndemands that each team member \nfollow the team leader. \nThe supercomputer research teams\nof the 1970s and ‘80s\nwere coerced to group think \nand were technologically brainwashed \nto group think only in the direction of \nconventional vector processing supercomputing. \nThe leading proponents \nof vector processing supercomputers\nwere the leading opponents \nof parallel processing supercomputers.\n\n18.1.4 Sometimes, The Impossible is Possible\n\nIn 1989, \nthere were 25,000 users \nof vector processing supercomputers.\nI was the only fulltime programmer\nof the handful of \nmassively parallel processing supercomputers\nof the 1980s.\nGene Amdahl and Seymour Cray,\nthe two leading opponents \nof the parallel processing supercomputer,\nargued that it will forever \nremain impossible \nto parallel process through as many as \neight processors or computer cores. \nIn the 1940s through ‘60s, \nthe group thinkers \nin the field of supercomputing\nfocused only on the\nsequential processing supercomputer\ntechnology.\nIn the 1970s and ‘80s, \nthe group thinkers in supercomputing focused only on the\nvector processing supercomputer technology. \nIn those two decades,\nI was forced to work as a lone wolf\nsupercomputer scientist\nthat was not a member \nof a 400-person research team.","author_name":"Philip Emeagwali"}