Molecular Architecture Workshop

本次研讨会的主要目标是将复杂硅级微系统的一些领先专家与分子器件界的主要领导者聚集在一起，就如何制定以下问题的未来答案提供一些初步想法： - 如何以更抽象的方式表达驱动此类系统的分子级相互作用，如何将这些抽象转化为“原始”构建块，以及应如何构建建模和设计工具来强调这种相互作用？ - 如何开发新的设计策略，将这些原始构建模块组合成更大的功能子系统，然后扩展到更大的分子系统，其中一些设计策略可能需要什么，以及从我们的硅经验中可以得到什么启发？ - 新技术需要什么才能使其扩展到完整的、可设计的、复杂的系统，可以与外部通信，包括硅等传统技术？ - 从复杂系统架构师的角度来看，此类技术的长期潜力是什么？ - 它们可以在哪些方面帮助解决当前硅技术微系统中存在的瓶颈？ - 是否存在这些新技术特别适合的新计算模型或系统设计？鉴于大多数与会者主要是计算硅微系统的架构师，研讨会的第二个目标是重新激发计算机体系结构社区的活力，以开发替代或混合的计算模型、新的微体系结构技术、新技术的设计工具和方法、新旧技术的混合，甚至移植回硅。最终目标是帮助系统架构和新技术社区开始开展及时推进此类技术所需的对话，并最大限度地提高政府对 NSF 分子架构计划等新项目的投资。

The primary objective of this workshop was to bring together some of the leading experts in complex silicon-level microsystems with key leaders from the molecular devices community to provide some initial thoughts on how to develop future answers to the following questions: - How can molecular level interactions driving such systems be expressed in more abstract ways, how can these abstractions be translated into "primitive" building blocks, and how should modeling and design tools be built to emphasize such interactions? - How does one develop new design strategies for combining such primitive building blocks into larger functional subsystems and then scale into even larger molecular systems, what might some of these design strategies entail, and what might be lifted from our experiences with silicon? - What needs to surround a new technology to allow it to scale into complete, designable, complex sys-tems that can communicate with the outside, including legacy technologies such as silicon? - What are long term potentials for such technologies, as seen by complex system architects? - Where can they help solve bottlenecks that exist in current silicon technology microsystems?- Are there new models of computation or system design for which these new technologies are particu-larly well suited? Given that the bulk of the attendees were primarily architects of computational silicon microsystems, a second objective of the workshop was to re-energize the computer architecture community to develop alter-native or mixed models of computation, new microarchitectural techniques, design tools and approaches for both the new technologies, mixes of old and new, and even port back into silicon. A final objective was to help both the system architecture and the new technology communities begin to develop the dialogs necessary to advance such technologies in a timely manner, and maximize the Government's investments in new programs such as NSF's Molecular Architecture Initiative.