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Chapter6andRLPQuiz
Points 14

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TimeLimit 30Minutes

Questions 14

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Question1

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Manykindsofscientificproblemsaswellassearchengine,webserver,and
databaseapplicationscanbehandledtodaybyamultiprocessor
architectureconsistingofalargesetofcomputersconnectedoveralocal
networkthatfunctionasasinglelargemultiprocessor.Thismultiprocessor
architectureiscalleda

looselycoupledclusters

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Question2

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Aparallelprocessor(multiprocessor)withasinglephysicaladdressspaceis
calledanSMPwhichstandsfor

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sharedmemorymultiprocessors

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Question3

Forroughlyequivalentsystems(samenumberofprocessors,similar
performance,etc.),betweenClusterandSMPwhichislikelytobemore
reliable?

[Select]

,scalable?

[Select]

,lowerpower?

[Select]

Answer1:
SMP

Answer2:
Cluster

Answer3:
SMP

Question4

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AnewclassofcomputercalledaWSCisaclusterconsistingofabout
100,000servercomputers.WSCstandsfor

WarehouseScaleComputers

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Question5

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Aclusterisa
messagepassingmultiprocessor
sharedmemorymultiprocessor

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Question6

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Whichofthefollowingisnotadifficultyencounteredwhentryingtoobtain
moreperformanceonamultiprocessor?
loadbalancing
scaling
hardware
Amdahl'sLaw
communicationsoverhead

Question7

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Thesimplestformofhardwaremultithreadingallowsanotherthreadtorun
underlongprocessorstalls(likeadataorinstructioncachemissstall).This
typeofmultithreadingiscalled?

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simultaneousmultithreading
finegrainedmultithreading
coarsegrainedmultithreading

Question8

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Anetworktopologythatconnectsprocessormemorynodesbysupplyinga
dedicatedcommunicationslinkbetweeneverynodeiscalledafully
connectedor_________network.

crossbar

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Question9

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Ethernetat1and10andnow100Gbitspersecondisthemostwidelyused
clusterinterconnecttoday.Theseclustersuseamultistagenetworktopology
knownasa_________?

omeganetwork

Question10

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The______________movementwherebetterengineeringsolutionsand
innovationcandrivequickadoptionhasbecomeacriticalportionofthe
softwareindustry.

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opensource

Question11

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Ofalltheoptimizationsdonetoimprovetheperformanceofmatrixmultiply
throughoutthebook,whichhadthegreatesteffecta)SIMD(datalevel
parallelism)b)instructionlevelparallelismvialoopunrollingc)blockingd)
MIMD(threadlevelparallelism)

LoopUnrolling(instructionlevelparallelism)
SIMD(datalevelparalelism)
MIMD(threadlevelparallelism)
Blocking

Question12

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Itissimpletowritegoodsoftwareformultiprocessors
True
False

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Question13

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WhatisthenameoftheprogramusedbyGoogle,Facebook,etc.todiscover
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attributesoflargedatasets?

hadoop

Question14

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Thetermusedintheindustrytorefertolargedatasetsis_________.

bigdata

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