Department of Computer Engineering
B.E 2019 (Computer)
High Performance Computing (410250)
(Semester-VIII)
Assignment-I Academic year 2024-25 Max. Marks :
Date of Assignment: 11/02/2025 Batch: B1,B2,B3
Instructions to the candidates:
1) Neat diagrams must be drawn wherever necessary.
2) Figures to the right side indicate full marks.
3) Assume Suitable data if necessary
Unit No III
Q. No. Question/ Item CO BL Marks
Describe the stored-program computer architecture and its relevance to
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parallel computing.
Describe the physical organization of parallel platforms, including
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interconnection networks and memory hierarchy.
Define and differentiate between instruction-level parallelism (ILP), thread-
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level parallelism (TLP), and data-level parallelism (DLP).
Compare and contrast SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) and MIMD
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(Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) models.
Describe the SPMD (Single Program, Multiple Data) model and its use in
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parallel programming.
What is an N-wide superscalar architecture, and how does it exploit
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instruction-level parallelism?
7 What is multi-threading, and how does it improve processor performance? CO1 2
What are the primary components of communication costs in parallel
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machines?
What is the data flow model of computation, and how does it differ from the
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control flow model?