CS6303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE UNIT IVPARALLELISM

PART-A
1. What is meant by ILP?
2. What is multiple issue? Write any two approaches.
3. What is meant by speculation?
4. Define – Static Multiple Issue
5. Define – Issue Slots and Issue Packet
6. Define – VLIW
7. Define – Superscalar Processor
8. What is meant by loop unrolling?
9. What is meant by anti-dependence? How is it removed?
10. Differentiate in-order execution from out-of-order execution.
11. What is meant by hardware multithreading?
12. What are the two main approaches to hardware multithreading?
13. What is SMT?
14. Compare SMT from hardware multithreading.
15. What are the three multithreading options?
16. Define – SMP
17. Differentiate UMA from NUMA.
18. What is a multicore microprocessor?
19. What is a parallel processing program?
20. Define a cluster



PART- B 
1. Explain Instruction level parallelism
2. Explain the difficulties faced by parallel processing programs
3. Explain shared memory multiprocessor
4. Explain in detail Flynn’s classification of parallel hardware
5. Explain cluster and other Message passing Multiprocessor
6. Explain in detail hardware Multithreading
7. Explain SISD and MIMD
8. Explain SIMD and SPMD
9. Explain Multicore processors
10. Explain the different types of multithreading