The SPLASH-2 programs: characterization and methodological considerations
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Modern Operating Systems
How Much Does Network Contention Affect Distributed Shared Memory Performance?
ICPP '97 Proceedings of the international Conference on Parallel Processing
Communication Contention in Task Scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Reconfigurability of the interconnect architecture for chip multiprocessors
WISICT '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information and communication technologies
Congestion modeling for reconfigurable inter-processor networks
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on System-level interconnect prediction
Predicting reconfigurable interconnect performance in distributed shared-memory systems
Integration, the VLSI Journal
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Recent advances in the development of reconfigurable optical interconnect technologies allow for the fabrication of low cost and run-time adaptable interconnects in large distributed shared-memory (DSM) multiprocessor machines. This can allow the use of adaptable interconnection networks that alleviate the huge bottleneck present due to the gap between the processing speed and the memory access time over the network. In this paper we have studied the scheduling of tasks by the kernel of the operating system (OS) and its influence on communication between the processing nodes of the system, focusing on the traffic generated just after a context switch. We aim to use these results as a basis to propose a potential reconfiguration of the network that could provide a significant speedup.