Accelerators, quo vadis? Performance vs. productivity
Sandra Wienke, Christian Terboven, Dieter an Mey, Matthias Müller · 2013
In an HPC era attracting notice to energy efficiency, a promising performance per watt ratio motivates the usage of accelerators like GPGPUs or Intel's Xeon Phi in today's heterogeneous computer systems. However, these heterogeneous architectures often get far more complex to program and employ.