Reducing energy consumption is a challenge that is faced on a daily basis by teams from the high-performance computing as well as the embedded domains. This issue is mostly approached from a hardware perspective by devising architectures that put energy efficiency as a primary target, often at the cost of processing power. Lately, computing platforms have become more and more heterogeneous, but the exploitation of these additional capabilities is so complex from the application developer’s perspective that their optimization margin is often limited.

Reducing energy consumption is a challenge that is faced on a daily basis by teams from the high-performance computing as well as the embedded domains. This issue is mostly approached from a hardware perspective by devising architectures that put energy efficiency as a primary target, often at the cost of processing power. Lately, computing platforms have become more and more heterogeneous, but the exploitation of these additional capabilities is so complex from the application developer’s perspective that their optimization margin is often limited.