What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software?
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen Michael Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley · IEEE Micro · 2012
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.