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