SWARNANDHRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

M. TECH I SEMESTER

Mid-II Question Bank

SUBJECT: Advanced Computer Architecture Branch:ECE Regulation: R19

UNIT-III

1.Write and explain about Compiler techniques for exposing ILP [10M]

2. Discuss about branch prediction[05M]

3. Illustrate the cross cutting issues between Hardware and Software speculation mechanism [05M]

4. Explain the complete procedure how Hardware support more parallelism at compile time [10M]

UNIT-IV

1.Explain in detail the Symmetric shared memory Architectures and Cache coherence problem [10M]

2.Discuss the Distributed memory Architectures [05M]

3. Explain the Synchronization Performance Challenges [05M]

4.Illustrate the characteristics of Application Domain [10M]

UNIT-V

1. Describe Interconnection network. Why is it important? [05M]

2. List and explain some examples of inter connected networks [05M]

3. Define Cluster and discuss the designing of cluster in detail [05M]

4. Discuss the practical issues for commercial Interconnection network [05M]

5. Illustrate how the prediction and speculation support will be provided in IA64 [10M]