"Scalability! But at what COST?" is another classic in the category (though it's not precisely about on-box parallelism if I recall; the authors' acronym "COST"

"Scalability! But at what COST?" is another classic in the category (though it's not precisely about on-box parallelism if I recall; the authors' acronym "COST" is the "Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread"). https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos... http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...