Code: A-29
Time: 3 Hours
Subject: PARALLEL COMPUTING
Max. Marks: 100

NOTE: There are 11 Questions in all.

  • Question 1 is compulsory and carries 16 marks. Answer to Q. 1. must be written in the space provided for it in the answer book supplied and nowhere else.
  • Answer any THREE Questions each from Part I and Part II. Each of these questions carries 14 marks.
  • Any required data not explicitly given, may be suitably assumed and stated.
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Q.1       Choose the correct or best alternative in the following: (2x8)

a. Which architecture is not generally used?
 

(A) MIMD
(C) MISD

(B) SIMD
(D)
SISD
b. With a 3-dimensional hypercube we can interconnect
 

(A) 3 processors.
(C) 8 processors.

(B) 9 processors.
(D) 2 processors.

c.

Cache coherence problem exists mainly in

 

(A) single processor system
(C)
loosely coupled system.

(B) tightly coupled system.
(D) multiprocessor system.
d. On which architecture ILLIAC-IV computer is based :-
  (A) word serial bit serial
(C) SIMD
(B) SISD
(D) word parallel bit parallel
e. A computer in which a set of identical processing elements act under the control of a master controller is called
  (A) super computer.
(C) asynchronous array processor.

(B) synchronous array processor.
(D) simputer.
f. Which is not a type of multistage network?
  (A) Blocking network
(C) Non blocking network
(B) Rearrangable network
(D) Systolic network

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