FET Core: Small: Workshop on Emerging Technologies of Post-Von Neumann Ising Machines

该项目致力于组织一次关于伊辛机器的战略愿景研讨会。会议实际上将举行两天。主要主题包括将Ising机器作为非凸优化专用计算机的首要问题，最大化对Ising机器未来研究的实际影响的战略，以及对硬件设备和架构的现状和下一步的评估，包括CMOS和非CMOS(例如光学)平台。重塑计算优化的基础，以利用新兴的物理、数学和管理科学，将需要一种扩展的技术协同设计方法，促进对设备、体系结构、算法和性能指标的同步和协调重新思考，以便根据后冯·诺伊曼·伊辛机器(PVNIM)最近的工作制定优化协同设计的具体愿景。研讨会的目的是围绕现有的实验硬件平台推动垂直整合的研究社区的联合，并就提高对非凸优化的基本理解和前沿努力的实际影响的总体目标达成共识。研讨会还将围绕后冯·诺依曼·伊辛机器的新兴技术建立新的社区，并普遍促进非凸优化理论和实践研究的垂直一体化。这一领域的进展极有可能影响到工业和政策的广泛领域。指导委员会将在研讨会结束后准备的摘要文件同样旨在影响整个CEISE理事会的研究优先事项，从而增加全国学术团体进行跨学科研究和培训的机会。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is devoted to organizing a strategic visioning workshop on Ising Machines. The meeting will be held virtually over two days. Major themes include overarching issues for Ising Machines as special-purpose computers for non-convex optimization, strategies for maximizing the practical impact of future research on Ising Machines, and assessment of current status and next steps for hardware devices and architectures including both CMOS and non-CMOS (e.g. optical) platforms. Recasting the foundations of computational optimization to leverage emerging physics, mathematics, and management science will require an expansive technology co-design approach that facilitates simultaneous and coordinated rethinking of devices, architectures, algorithms and performance metrics, in order to develop a concrete vision for optimization co-design grounded in recent work on post-von Neumann Ising Machines (PVNIMs). The intention of the workshop is to spark the coalescence of vertically-integrated research communities around existing experimental hardware platforms and build consensus regarding overarching goals for improving both the basic understanding of non-convex optimization and the practical impact of frontier efforts. The workshop will also build a new community around the emerging technology of post-von Neumann Ising machines, and generally promote vertical integration of research on the theory and practice of non-convex optimization. Advances in this area have a high likelihood to impact broad areas of industry and policy. The summary document to be prepared by the Steering Committee after the workshop is intended likewise to influence research priorities across the CISE Directorate, leading to increased opportunities for interdisciplinary research and training in academic groups nationwide.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.