What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software?

by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, and Kathryn S. McKinley

Systematically exploring power, performance, and energy sheds new light on the clash of two trends that unfolded over the past decade: the rise of parallel processors in response to technology constraints on power, clock speed, and wire delay; and the rise of managed high-level, portable programming languages. READ FULL ARTICLE (login required) »