EAGER: Computer Architectures for 2020 and Beyond

这个急切的项目促进了新兴(纳米)技术领域的国际合作，即新型神经形态细胞计算架构的设计。由圣母大学的一个小组成员领导的联合工作将吸引亚利桑那州立大学和三所欧洲机构的合作伙伴参与，这三所欧洲机构分别是德国慕尼黑工业大学、匈牙利科学院和西班牙塞维利亚大学。五个地点中的每一个目前都在协作所涉专题的各个方面开展了强有力的研究活动，例如混合计算机体系结构、新兴处理以及传感和使能集成技术。它们在各自国家的资金来源的支持下，都有正在进行的研究的杰出历史。总之，研究人员打算为一种截然不同的信息处理方法奠定基础，这种方法基于大规模纳米电子处理元件细胞阵列中受大脑启发的时空行为。具体地说，他们的目标是确定未来计算系统的计算构件。这种合作将进一步促进这些地理上不同的群体的能力，促进学生交流、集思广益会议--包括实体和虚拟的--以及初级研究人员的短期交流访问。将组织会议、讲习班、暑期学校、虚拟教室，以利用各参与中心的互补专业知识，并将由该小组合作传播研究成果和教育产品。因此，该项目的广泛影响应该是重大的，特别是对参与项目的美国学生和初级研究人员来说，首先是通过在国外获得早期职业生涯和高水平的技术经验，其中一些经验在美国是不容易获得的，其次是通过让他们接触到不同学科和文化背景下的以团队为重点的研究环境。同样值得注意的是，这一项目还受益于在高度显眼的(纳米)技术社会影响研究中心获得互补的专业知识，例如亚利桑那州立大学的NSF资助的社会纳米技术中心和慕尼黑社会技术中心(位于慕尼黑的Carl von Linde Akademie)。这种互动预计将极大地提高整体合作努力的社会和教育价值。这个急切的项目是由美国国家科学基金会国际和综合活动办公室共同资助的。

This EAGER project fosters international collaboration in an area of emerging (nano) technology, the design of novel neuromorphic cellular computing architectures. Led by members of a group at the Notre Dame University, the joint work will engage partners at Arizona State University and three European institutions, the Technical University Munich in Germany, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Spain's Seville University. Each of the five locations currently has strong research activities on various aspects of the topic covered by the collaboration, e.g., hybrid computer architectures, emerging processing, and sensing and enabling integration technologies. All have a distinguished history of ongoing research with support from funding sources in their respective countries. Together, the researchers intend to lay the groundwork for a radically different approach to information processing that is based on brain-inspired spatial-temporal behavior in large-scale, cellular arrays of nanoelectronic processing elements. Specifically, their goal is to identify the computational building blocks for future computing systems. This collaboration will further enable the capacities of these geographically diverse groups to facilitate student exchanges, brainstorming sessions - both physical and virtual - and short exchange visits by junior researchers. Conferences, workshops, summer schools, virtual classrooms to leverage the complementary expertise of various participating centers will be organized, and dissemination of research results and educational products will be undertaken cooperatively by the group. Thus, the broader impact of the project should be significant, especially for the participating U.S. students and junior researchers, first by gaining early career, high level technical experience abroad, some of which is not readily available in the U.S., and secondly, by exposing them to a team-focused research environment in differing disciplinary and cultural contexts. It is also noteworthy that this particular project enjoys the benefits of access to complementary expertise at highly visible research centers for societal impacts of (nano) technology, e.g., the NSF-funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society, at Arizona State University, and the Munich Center for Technology in Society, at the Carl von Linde Akademie in Munich. Such interaction is expected to greatly enhance the societal and educational value of the overall collaborative effort. This EAGER project is co-funded by the NSF's Office of International and Integrative Activities.