Assignment I

Write any two question from each part

Parallel processing:

1) Discuss different type of parallelism on parallel processing

2) What is Super Scalar and super pipeline execution?
3) Describe tightly couple multiprocessor
4) Describe time shared bus and what is the drawback? How to solve the drawback in multiport
memory.
5) Discuss Flynn’s Classification of parallel computing. Why MISD is not used in practically?
6) What is snoopy cache? How can it prevent data ambiguity?
7) Consider the multiplication of two 45 X 45 matrices using a vector processor.
a) How many product term are there in each inner product and how many inner product must be
evaluated?
b) How many multiply – add operations are needed to calculate the product matrix?

8) Define data flow chart-

P= X+Y
Q=P / Y
R=X * P
S=R-Q
T=R * P
U=S / T
9) What is cluster computing?
10) What is Multi-media Extension Technology?

Vector processor:

1) What is vector processor? What is the benefit using vector processor in computer system?
2) Describe briefly vector processing unit.
3) Discuss different type of vector instruction. Or Discuss vector instruction format.
4) What is vector- register Architecture? Or Describe briefly vector register processor.
5) Describe different type of architecture of vector processor.
6) Discuss briefly vector processor unit. Or Give the block diagram to indicate the architecture of a
typical vector processor with multiple functional unit.
7) Why do most vector processor use memory banks rather than simple interleaving?
8) Discuss about strip mining and vector stride in vector processors.
9) What is vector array processor?
10) What is meant by Horizontal and vertical vector processing?
 11) Short note: Scalar and vector processors
Memory memory vector Architecture
Vector Register Architecture

RISC and CISC:

1) Differentiate between RISC & CISC.

2) Describe Machine level language Where M1 = (808A) M2 =(EF22)
ADD A,B,C
ADD A,B
ADD M1,B
ADD M1,M2
ADD A,B,M1
ADD A, M1, M2

Pipeline :

1) Discuss different type of hazard in pipeline. How can prevent hazard in pipeline ?
2) What is pipeline? what is the benefit to use pipeline?
3) What is Pipeline speedup?

Performance Analysis

1) What is distributed memory multiprocessor explain with proper example ?

2) What do you mean by UMA and NUMA explain with proper diagram? Which one give
better performance?

3) What is Omega network?

4) What is mesh topology? Disadvantage
5) Compare omega network and mesh topology
6) What is Hypercube Network
7) Amdahl’s Law
8) Suppose we enhance a machine making all floating point instruction run five time faster. If the
execution time of some benchmark before the floating point enhancement is 10 sec what will the
speedup be if half of the 10 sec is spent execution floating point instruction.
9) A program run 1000 sec on a machine. Multiply responsible for 80% How much do we
have to improve the speed of multiplication if we want the program to run 4 times faster.
10) What is Shared Memory Multiprocessor
11) Short note:
a) Cluster computing
b) Omega network
c) Hypercube Network
d) UMA
e) NUMA
f) MMX Technology
g) MIPS
h) VLIW
i) CCUMA
j) Flynn’s Clasification