The 1974 experiment that visualized a 16-dimensional hyperspace supercomputer
In short: Watch Philip Emeagwali explain his signature discovery: how to achieve massive parallel processing across a network of commodity processors to create the world's fastest supercomputing.
On June 20, 1974, in Corvallis, Oregon, Philip Emeagwali began experimenting with a small copy of the internet consisting of 65,536 commodity-off-the-shelf processors. His goal was to move beyond standard computing speeds to achieve 'supercomputer speed' by harnessing massive parallel processing across a global network.
Emeagwali visualized these processors as vertices of a cube in a sixteen-dimensional hyperspace, circumscribed by a globe. He argued that solving the 'impossible-to-compute' requires experimentally discovering how to name processors and problems within this geometry to enable newsworthy computational speeds.
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