Parallel Programming Platforms

Choose which approaches can be used to hide memory latency.

• prefetching

• multithreading

• spatial locality

• shared address space

SIMD is stands for

• single instruction stream, multiple data stream

• shared instruction stream, multiple data stream

multiple instruction stream, multiple data stream is?

• MIDM

• MIMD

• MSMD

What is the name of this architecture?

• SIMD

• MIMD

• SPMD

What is the platform called when the time taken by a processor to access any memory word in the system global or local is identical.

• UMA

• NUMA

What are the components that are used to construct conventional parallel computing?

• data path

• memory

• hardware

• processor

Which of the followings are examples of conventional parallel architecture?

• pipelining

• superscalar

• very long instruction words

• bus network

(a)   is the time from the issue of a memory request to the time data is available at the processor.

The rate at which data can be pumped to the processor by the memory system.

• bandwidth

• time

• latency

• hit ratio

What is the form that can be used in exchanging data between parallel tasks?

• shared data space

• pipeline

• exchanging messages

• VLIW