Parallel Computing-Practice Questions

MCSE-011

 

Question 1: Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three interleaved memory organisations: the S-access, the C-access and the C/S-access for pipelined vector processing. In the comparison, you should be concerned with the issues on effective memory bandwidth, storage schemes used, access conflict resolution and cost-effective tradeoffs.

 

Question 2: Explain the following system features associated with the Illiac-IV, the BSP, and the MPP array processors: (a) Multi-array configurations of the Illiac-IV (b) The prime memory for the BSP (c) The bit-slice operations in the MPP (d) Concurrent scalar-array operations in the BSP (e) Concurrent I/O and arithmetic logic operations in the MPP (f) The staging memory configurations in the MPP (g) Host computers for the Illiac-IV, the BSP, and the MPP (h) The I/O facilities in the Illiac-IV, the BSP and the MPP.