Parallel Processing Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

11. As of 2000, the reference system to find the performance of a system is

1. Ultra SPARC 10
2. SUN SPARC
3. SUN II
4. None of these

12. As of 2000, the reference system to find the SPEC rating are built with ..............Processor.

1. Intel Atom SParc 300Mhz
2. Ultra SPARC -IIi 300MHZ
3. Amd Neutrino series
4. ASUS A series 450 Mhz

13. Both the CISC and RISC architectures have been developed to reduce the

1. Cost
2. Time delay
3. Semantic gap
4. All of the above

14. Cache coherence: For which shared (virtual) memory systems is the snooping protocol suited?

1. Crossbar connected systems
2. Systems with hypercube network
3. Systems with butterfly network
4. Bus based systems

15. CD -RAW is

1. Input device only
2. output device only
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above

16. Characteristic of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) instruction set is

1. three instructions per cycle
2. two instructions per cycle
3. one instruction per cycle
4. none of the

17. CISC stands for

1. Complete Instruction Sequential Compilation
2. Computer Integrated Sequential Compiler
3. Complex Instruction Set Computer
4. Complex Instruction Sequential Compilation

18. CPU does not perform the operation

1. data transfer
2. logic operation
3. arithmetic operation
4. all of the above

19. Data hazards occur when

1. Greater performance loss
2. Pipeline changes the order of read/write access to operands
3. Some functional unit is not fully pipelined
4. Machine size is limited

20. During the execution of the instructions, a copy of the instructions is placed in the

1. Register
2. RAM
3. System heap
4. Cache