StorageMojo » Benchmarking energy efficiency
JouleSort is an I/O-centric benchmark that measures the energy efficiency of systems at peak use. Like previous sort benchmarks, one of its goals is to gauge the end-to-end effectiveness of improvements in system components. To do so, JouleSort allows us to compare the energy efficiencies of a variety of disparate system [...]

The Multicore Computer Forum Series “ explor[es] the benefits and challenges of Multicore computing.”

High Performance Throughput Computing, Dr. Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect, Sun’s Scalable Systems Group
Software and the Concurrency Revolution, Herb Sutter, Microsoft
Architecture Support for Parallel Programming, Dr. Kunle Olukotun, Associate Professor, Stanford University

http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/45/9/30

“Although chip performance keeps going up, and performance per dollar, too, performance per watt is stagnant. In other words, the total power consumed in data centres is rising. Worse, the operational costs of commercial data centres are almost directly proportional to how much power is consumed by the PCs. And unfortunately, a lot of that [...]