Molecular Architecture Workshop

这次研讨会的主要目的是将一些复杂的硅级微系统领域的顶尖专家与分子设备领域的主要领导者聚集在一起，就如何开发未来对以下问题的答案提供一些初步想法：-如何以更抽象的方式表达驱动这种系统的分子级相互作用，如何将这些抽象转化为“原始的”构建块，以及应该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，将这些原始构建块组合成更大的功能子系统，然后扩展到更大的分子系统，这些设计策略中的一些可能需要什么，我们从硅的经验中可以学到什么？-新技术需要围绕什么来使其能够扩展到能够与外部通信的完整、可设计的复杂系统？-在复杂的系统架构师看来，这种技术的长期潜力是什么？-它们可以在哪里帮助解决当前硅技术微系统中存在的瓶颈？-有没有新的计算或系统设计模型特别适合这些新技术？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励计算机体系结构社区，以开发改变本地或混合的计算模型、新的微体系结构技术、设计工具和方法，用于新技术、新旧混合，甚至重新进入硅。最终目标是帮助系统架构和新技术社区开始开发必要的对话，以及时推进此类技术，并最大限度地增加政府对新项目的投资，例如NSF的分子架构倡议。

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.