Mobile Devices-aware Refactorings for Scientific Computational Kernels

The increasing number of mobile devices with ever-growing process- ing capabilities, make them interesting for scientific applications development. However, we must take into account that mobile devices still have limited ca- pabilities compared to fixed devices. Besides, mobile devices rely on battery as energy supply. For these reasons, this paper analyzes different micro-benchmarks battery consumption given by common operations in scientific computational ker- nels. Indirectly, we propose good programming practices or code refactorings in order to minimize mobile devices battery consumption.

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