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Advanced Computer Architecture

This document contains four sample exam papers for the Advanced Computer Architecture course. Each paper contains 8 questions covering topics like parallel random access machines, Amdahl's law, pipeline processors, multi-computers, network architectures like CM-5, characteristics of computers like Cray, memory consistency models, multiprocessors, and parallelism in hardware and software. Students have to answer any 5 questions out of the 8 questions in each paper within the allotted time of 3 hours.

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Advanced Computer Architecture

This document contains four sample exam papers for the Advanced Computer Architecture course. Each paper contains 8 questions covering topics like parallel random access machines, Amdahl's law, pipeline processors, multi-computers, network architectures like CM-5, characteristics of computers like Cray, memory consistency models, multiprocessors, and parallelism in hardware and software. Students have to answer any 5 questions out of the 8 questions in each paper within the allotted time of 3 hours.

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Code: 9A05704

B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular & Supplementary Examinations December/J anuary 2013/14
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

*****

1 Write short notes on:
(a) Parallel random access machines (PRAM).
(b) STMD super computer.

2 Define speed up. How Amdahls law be used to find the speed up of a computer
system.

3 (a) Briefly explain about linear pipeline processors.
(b) Discuss about the through put and efficiency in linear pipeline processors.

4 Describe the three generations of multi computers. Explain it briefly.

5 (a) Explain briefly about the CM-S network architecture.
(b) Briefly explain the characteristics of CRAY.

6 (a) Explain about relaxed memory consistency.
(b) Explain about the standard dash multiprocessor.

7 (a) Discuss various limitations of ILP construction level parallelism.
(b) Write short notes on branch prediction.

8 Differentiate between implicit and explicit parallelism with a neat sketch.

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Code: 9A05704

B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular & Supplementary Examinations December/J anuary 2013/14
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

*****

1 (a) Compare and contrast static connection networks and dynamic connection networks.
(b) What are the characteristics of the SIMD computers?

2 (a) What was Amdahls law? Explain with example.
(b) What are the critical goals in the instruction set, primarily from the compiler view
point?

3 (a) Discuss about the multifunctional arithmetic pipelines.
(b) What is cache? Explain various cache addressing models.

4 (a) Write short notes on flow control strategies.
(b) Explain cache coherence and how this problem can be avoided.

5 (a) Explain briefly about the CM-2 architecture.
(b) Describe multi pipeline networking.

6 Write about the concept of multithreading.

7 (a) What is an operand forwarding? Explain briefly.
(b) Explain about branch prediction.

8 Differentiate between implicit and explicit parallelism with a neat sketch.

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Code: 9A05704

B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular & Supplementary Examinations December/J anuary 2013/14
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

*****

1 (a) Differentiate between multiprocessor and multi computers.
(b) Write short notes on role of compilers.

2 (a) Write short notes on harmonic mean performance.
(b) Differentiate between RISC and CISC.

3 (a) Write short notes on shared memory.
(b) What is cache? Explain various cache addressing models.

4 (a) What is a multistage network? Explain the different types of multistage network.
(b) Compare the performance of a multiple bus multiprocessors crossbar switch and with
multiport memory.

5 Discuss about the compound vector processing in detail.

6 (a) Explain distributed coherent caches.
(b) Explain mine-grain parallelism.

7 (a) What do you mean by thread level parallelism?
(b) Write short notes on record buffer.

8 Explain the threads in parallel systems.

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Code: 9A05704

B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular & Supplementary Examinations December/J anuary 2013/14
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

*****

1 What is parallelism? What are the various conditions of parallelism?

2 (a) Explain about the applications models of parallel computers.
(b) Describe serves dimensions of an instruction set architecture.

3 Write short notes on:
(a) Linear pipeline processors.
(b) Collision free scheduling.

4 (a) Explain briefly about the message passing mechanism.
(b) Describe virtual channels.

5 (a) Discuss the characteristics of vector processing.
(b) Explain briefly about CM-5 network architecture.

6 (a) Discuss about the scalable coherence interface.
(b) Write about notes on evolution of data flow computers.

7 Explain about the Toma sulos algorithm in detail.

8 Describe hardware and software parallelism with an example.

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