Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali, (born in 1954) is an Igbo Nigerian-born engineer and computer scientist/geologist, first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers.
He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs.

With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life.

Other Interesting Facts About Philip Emeagwali

• World's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989
• Solved the largest weather forecasting equations with 128 million points in 1990.
• Solved one of America's 20 Grand Challenges by accurately computing how oil flows underground and thereby alerting the petroleum industry that massively parallel computers can be used to recover more oil. Only 30 percent of the oil in a reservoir can be recovered and this discovery will enable oil companies to recover more oil.

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