We recently came across a post on the HPC Wire website that shed light on the new breed of heterogeneous computing that is signaling the end to the ‘one size fits all’ approach to core architectures.

The post, by Michael Feldman refers to last year’s launch of ARM’s "big.LITTLE" design, a chip architecture than integrates large, performant ARM cores with small, power-efficient ones. The goal of this approach is to minimize power draw by mapping an application to the optimal cores based on performance demands and power availability.