CI-P: Community Infrastructure to Catalyze Research in Automata Computing

美光科技宣布推出一款新的硬件加速器Automata Processor，并帮助在弗吉尼亚大学建立了一个中心，以促进对潜在用户的培训，帮助围绕这一范式创建一个研究社区，并促进新的合作。 自动机处理器旨在实现大规模并行模式识别。 据称，在涉及复杂模式匹配的广泛应用中，例如生物信息学，网络安全，数据挖掘和自然语言处理，可以实现10- 1000倍或更高的加速。虽然自动机计算技术的潜在影响是显著的，但目前还没有自动机计算基础设施来催化围绕该技术的新研究机会。这个规划项目将汇集一个基础广泛的计算机和信息科学与工程研究人员社区，他们可以开发自动机计算的新应用，并提高自动机计算的能力，其目标是定义涉及自动机技术的社区基础设施的需求，并定义未来完整社区基础设施的需求。来自不同机构的研究人员将被邀请参加这一规划项目。这些研究人员和他们的学生将了解自动机处理器的技术能力和异构计算的新模型，并将有机会与新兴的研究社区接触，并开始涉及自动机技术的初步研究和教育项目。由于其广泛的商业潜力，社区基础设施的用户开发的新技术很可能具有很高的价值，作为社区研究的产物，有许多许可证的可能性或形成附带公司的潜力。

Micron Technology has announced a new hardware accelerator, the Automata Processor, and helped establish a center at the University of Virginia to facilitate training for potential users, help create a research community around this paradigm, and catalyze new collaborations. The Automata Processor is designed to enable massively parallel pattern recognition. It is claimed that speedups of 10-1000X or greater are possible on a wide range of applications involving complex pattern matching, such as in bioinformatics, cybersecurity, data mining, and natural language processing. While the potential impact of automata computing technology is significant, no automata computing infrastructure currently exists to catalyze new research opportunities around this technology.This planning project will bring together a broad-based community of Computer and Information Science and Engineering researchers who can develop new applications of, and advance the capabilities of automata computing, with the goal of defining the needs of a community infrastructure involving automata technology, and defining the needs for a future, full Community Infrastructure-New proposal. Researchers from diverse institutions will be invited to participate in this planning project. These researchers and their students will learn about the technical capabilities of the Automata Processor and new models for heterogeneous computing, and will have the opportunity to engage with an emerging research community as well as to begin initial research and educational projects involving automata technology. Because of its widespread commercial potential, new technologies developed by users of the community infrastructure are likely to have high value as communal research artifacts, with numerous licensing possibilities or the potential to form spin-off companies.