Abstract
The quick evolution in computing platforms represents an ongoing cat-and-mouse game with the techniques we can build to measure and analyze them. Where performance used to be the dominant metric to measure, current tools and techniques must also accurately estimate power, error resiliency, and other attributes. Furthermore, the trajectory towards extensive, dynamic, and heterogeneous parallelism make such estimates both more important and more difficult to achieve. This talk will discuss measurement trends and opportunities in two particular domains -- for mobile computing, and for heterogeneous parallelism -- as examples of the broadening challenges and opportunities for the field overall.