Cellular automata machines: a new environment for modeling
Cellular automata machines: a new environment for modeling
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on cellular automata: promise in computational science
Self-timed cellular automata and their computational ability
Future Generation Computer Systems - Cellular automata CA 2000 and ACRI 2000
Building Diverse Computer Systems
HOTOS '97 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI)
Embedding universal delay-insensitive circuits in asynchronous cellular spaces
Fundamenta Informaticae - Special issue on cellular automata
FAWNdamentally power-efficient clusters
HotOS'09 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Robust evaluation of expressions by distributed virtual machines
UCNC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
The von Neumann architecture is due for retirement
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
Bespoke physics for living technology
Artificial Life
Post-compiler software optimization for reducing energy
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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For research insights and development potential, we should explore computer architectures designed to scale indefinitely. Given physical limits, we argue an indefinitely scalable computer should or must (1) reveal to programmers its component spatial relationships, (2) forego unique addresses, and (3) operate asynchronously. Further, such a machine and its programming must be inherently robust against local failures and outages, and be operable during its own construction. We propose the indefinitely scalable Movable Feast Machine, which defers many architectural decisions to an execution model that associates processing, memory, and communications functions with movable bit patterns rather than fixed locations. We illustrate basic and novel computational elements such as self-healing wire, simple cell membranes for modularity, and robust stochastic sorting by movable self-replicating programs.