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Out-of-the-box thoughts fuel supercomputer virtuoso
2005
Overview
It's one of the provocative, some would say outlandish, ideas to flow from the formidable mind of [Philip Emeagwali], supercomputer virtuoso, Internet prophet, civil-war survivor and African hero. Superlatives abound in Emeagwali's lengthy resume. In 1989, he programmed more than 65,000 processors to perform the world's fastest computation: 3.1 billion calculations per second. The feat smashed the previous record and proved that a network of small computers could outperform more powerful, expensive supercomputers. Born in Nigeria, young Philip was recognized early as a math prodigy. His father drilled him to solve 100 problems an hour to help pass school entrance exams. But at the age of 12, civil war forced him to drop out and he was conscripted into the Biafran army. He earned a high-school diploma through self-teaching and won a math scholarship to the United States.
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