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Parallel Computing Practice Test
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Parallel Computing is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve a computational problem. To be run using multiple CPUs.

Parallel Computing Practice Test
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1. In immediate addressing the operand is placed
2. Point-to-point communication referred to
3. To provide increased memory capacity for operating system, the
4. Both the CISC and RISC architectures have been developed to reduce the______.
5. In daisy-chaining priority method, all the devices that can request an interrupt are connected in
6. Fine-grain Parallelism is
7. Here a single program is executed by all tasks simultaneously. At any moment in time, tasks can be executing the same or different instructions within the same program. These programs usually have the necessary logic programmed into them to allow different tasks to branch or conditionally execute only those parts of the program they are designed to execute.
8. The clock rate of the processor can be improved by,
9. The expression 'delayed load' is used in context of
10. It is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve a computational problem
11. An optimizing Compiler does,
12. Serial Execution
13. These applications typically have multiple executable object files (programs). While the application is being run in parallel, each task can be executing the same or different program as other tasks. All tasks may use different data
14. Which Algorithm is better choice for pipelining?
15. If a processor clock is rated as 1250 million cycles per second, then its clock period is ________ .
16. Granularity is
17. The maximum integer which can be stored on a 8 bit accumulator is
18. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is
19. Which of the architecture is power efficient?
20. Dynamic RAMs are best suited to
21. In a system with a 16 bit address bus, what is the maximum number of 1K byte memory devices it could contain
22. Cache Coherent UMA (CC-UMA) is
23. CD -RAW is
24. Latency is
25. Intel Pentium CPU is a