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Code: 9A05704 B.TECH III Year II Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, April/May 2012 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Computer Science and Systems Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (a) (b) (c) 8 Define multiprocessors. What are the different program flow mechanisms? Explain. Write in detail principles of scalable performance. Explain arithmetic pipeline design with example.

What are message-passing mechanisms? Explain them in detail.

What are the vector processing principles? Explain them in detail.

Difference between dataflow and hybrid architectures. Explain with example. Write about: Reorder buffer. Branch prediction. Thread level parallelism.

What are the forms of parallelism? Explain with taking one case study.

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Code: 9A05704 B.TECH III Year II Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, April/May 2012 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Computer Science and Systems Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 What are the conditions of parallelism? Explain about program partitioning and scheduling. What are the differences between superscalar and vector processors? Write about memory hierarchy technology. Explain instruction pipeline design with example.

3 4 5 (a) (b) (c) 6 7 (a) (b) (c) 8

What are the different synchronization mechanisms? Explain them in detail. Write about: Multivector. Multiprocessors. CM-5.

Difference between dataflow and hybrid architectures. Explain with example. Write about: Reorder buffer. Branch prediction. Thread level parallelism.

What are the forms of parallelism? Explain with taking one case study. *****

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Code: 9A05704 B.TECH III Year II Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, April/May 2012 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Computer Science and Systems Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 2 Explain in detail about PRAM and VLSI models. What are parallel processing applications? Write in detail performance metrics and measures. Difference between linear and nonlinear pipeline processors. Explain in detail. What are message-passing mechanisms? Explain them in detail. Write about: Multivector. Multiprocessors. CM-5.

3 4 5 (a) (b) (c) 6 7 (a) (b) (c) 8

Difference between dataflow and hybrid architectures. Explain with example. Write about: Reorder buffer. Branch prediction. Thread level parallelism.

What are the forms of parallelism? Explain with taking one case study.

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Code: 9A05704 B.TECH III Year II Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, April/May 2012 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Computer Science and Systems Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 What are the differences between multiprocessors and multicomputers? What the architectural developments to support parallel processing? Discuss in detail bout scalability analysis and approaches. Explain in detail shared memory organization.

2 3 4 5 (a) (b) (c) 6 7 (a) (b) (c) 8

What are the different synchronization mechanisms? Explain them in detail. Write about: Multivector. Multiprocessors. CM-5.

Difference between dataflow and hybrid architectures. Explain with example. Write about: Reorder buffer. Branch prediction. Thread level parallelism.

What are the forms of parallelism? Explain with taking one case study.

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