Computer Architecture 14-18 Quiz

With ________ instructions are simultaneously issued from multiple threads to the execution units of a superscalar processor.

• chip multiprocessing

• SMT

• coarse-grained multithreading

• single-threaded scalar

_________ causes results issuing from one functional unit to be fed immediately into another functional unit and so on.

• Rollover

• Chaining

• Pipelining

• Passive standby

The situation where the second instruction needs data produced by the first instruction to execute is referred to as __________.

• output dependency

• procedural dependency

• true data dependency

• antidependency

With _______, register banks are replicated so that multiple threads can share the use of pipeline resources.

• scalar

• pipelining

• SMT

• superscalar

A ________ instruction can be used to account for data and branch delays.

• NOOP

• all of the above

• JUMP

• SUB

Instead of the first instruction producing a value that the second instruction uses, with ___________ the second instruction destroys a value that the first instruction uses.

• resource conflict

• antidependency

• out-of-order completion

• in-order issue

All MIPS R series processor instructions are encoded in a single ________ word format.

• 4-bit

• 16-bit

• 8-bit

• 32-bit

A taxonomy first introduced by _______ is still the most common way of categorizing systems with parallel processing capability.

• von Neuman

• Randolph

• Flynn

• Desai

_________ is when multiple pipelines are constructed by replicating execution resources, enabling parallel execution of instructions in parallel pipelines so long as hazards are avoided.

• Vectoring

• Hybrid multithreading

• Pipelining

• Superscalar

Oracle database, SAP, and PeopleSoft are examples of ________ applications.

• multi-process

• multi-instance

• multithreaded native

• Java