Question 1 : The need for parallel processor to increase speedup
- Moores Law
- Minsky conjecture
- Flynns Law
- Amdhals Law
Question 2 : Which of the following interrupt is non maskable
- INTR
- RST 7.5
- RST 6.5
- TRAP
Question 3 : In which system desire HPC
- Adaptivity
- Transparency
- Dependency
- Secretivte
Question 4 : When every caches hierarchy level is subset of level which futher away from the processor
- Synchronous
- Atomic synschronous
- Distrubutors
- Multilevel inclusion
Question 5 : . ______________ leads to concurrency
- Serialization
- cloud computing
- Distribution
- Parallelism
Question 6 : The problem where process concurrency becomes an issue is called as ___________
- Reader-write problem
- Bankers problem
- Bakery problem
- Philosophers problem
Question 7 : Interprocess communication that take place
- Centralized memory
- Message passing
- shared memory
- cache memory
Question 8 : Speedup can be as low as____
- 1
- 2
- 0
- 3
Question 9 : A type of parallelism that uses micro architectural techniques.
- bit based
- bit level
- increasing
- instructional
Question 10 : MPI_Comm_size
- Returns number of processes
- Returns number of line
- Returns size of program
- Returns value of instruction
Question 11 : High performance computing of the computer system tasks are done by
- node clusters
- network clusters
- Beowulf clusters
- compute nodes
Question 12 : MPI_Comm_rank
- returns rank
- returns processes
- returns value
- Returns value of instruction
Question 13 : A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called ______ .
- Super-scaling
- Pipe-lining
- Parallel Computation
- distributed
Question 14 : Any condition that causes a processor to stall is called as _________
- page fault
- system error
- Hazard
- execuation error
Question 15 : Characteristic of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) instruction set is
- one word instruction
- two word instruction
- three word instruction
- four word instruction
Question 16 : The disadvantage of using a parallel mode of communication is ______
- Leads to erroneous data transfer
- It is costly
- Security of data
- complexity of network
Question 17 : A microprogram sequencer
- generates the address of next micro instruction to be executed.
- generates the control signals to execute a microinstruction.
- sequentially averages all microinstructions in the control memory.
- enables the efficient handling of a micro program subroutine.
Question 18 : The___ time collectively spent by all the processing elements Tall = p TP
- total
- Average
- mean
- sum
Question 19 : In a distributed computing environment, distributed shared memory is used which is_____________
- Logical combination of virtual memories on the nodes
- Logical combination of physical memories on the nodes
- Logical combination of the secondary memories on all the nodes
- Logical combinatin of files
Question 20 : The average number of steps taken to execute the set of instructions can be made to be less than one by following _______ .
- Sequentional
- super-scaling
- pipe-lining
- ISA
Question 21 : The main difference between the VLIW and the other approaches to improve performance is ___________
- increase in performance
- Lack of complex hardware design
- Cost effectiveness
- latency
Question 22 : CISC stands for
- Complete Instruction Sequential Compilation
- Complete Instruction Sequential Compiler
- Complete Instruction Serial Compilation
- Complex Instruction set computer
Question 23 : Speedup, in theory, should be ______ bounded by p
- lower
- upper
- left
- right
Question 24 : Virtualization that creates one single address space architecture that of, is called
- Loosely coupled
- Space based
- Tightly coupled
- peer-to-peer
Question 25 : MPI_Init
- Close MPI environment
- Initialize MPI environment
- start programing
- Call processes
Question 26 : Content of the program counter is added to the address part of the instruction in order to obtain the effective address is called
- relative address mode
- index addressing mode
- register mode
- implied mode
Question 27 : The straight-forward model used for the memory consistency, is called
- Sequential consistency
- Random consistency
- Remote node
- Host node
Question 28 : Which MIMD systems are best scalable with respect to the number of processors
- Distributed memory
- ccNUMA
- nccNUMA
- Symmetric multiprocessor
Question 29 : Memory management on a multiprocessor must deal with all of found on
- Uniprocessor Computer
- Computer
- Processor
- System
Question 30 : The___ time collectively spent by all the processing elements Tall = p TP
- total
- sum
- average
- product