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101.

Execution of several activities at the same time.

A. processing
B. parallel processing
C. serial processing
D. multitasking
Answer» C. serial processing
102.

Parallel processing may occur

A. in the instruction stream
B. b. in the data stream
C. both[a] and [b]
D. none of the above
Answer» D. none of the above
103.

Data hazards occur when .....................

A. greater performance loss
B. pipeline changes the order of read/write access to operands
C. some functional unit is not fully pipelined
D. machine size is limited
Answer» C. some functional unit is not fully pipelined
104.

A pipeline is like ....................

A. an automobile assembly line
B. house pipeline
C. both a and b
D. a gas line
Answer» B. house pipeline
105.

which of the following is not scheme for static mapping

A. block distribution
B. block cyclic distributions
C. cyclic distributions
D. self scheduling
Answer» E.
106.

which of the following are classes of dynamic mapping centralized method

A. self scheduling
B. chunk scheduling
C. both a and b
D. none of the above
Answer» D. none of the above
107.

which of the following are methods for containing interaction overheads

A. maximizing data locality
B. minimize volumn of data exchange
C. min frequency of interactions
D. all the above
Answer» E.
108.

which of the following is false regarding data parallel model

A. all task perform same computations
B. degree of parallelism increase with size of problem
C. matrix multiplication is example of data parallel computations
D. dynamic mapping is done
Answer» E.
109.

work pool model uses ---------------- approach for task assignment

A. static
B. dynamic
C. centralized
D. decentralized
Answer» C. centralized
110.

which of the following is not an advantage of OpenGL

A. there is more detailed documentation for opengl while other api\s don\t have such detailed documentation.
B. opengl is portable.
C. opengl is more functional than any other api.
D. it is not a cross-platform api,
Answer» E.
111.

OpenGL stands for:

A. a. open general liability
B. b. open graphics library
C. c. open guide line
D. d. open graphics layer
Answer» C. c. open guide line
112.

Allowing multiple instructions for issuing in a clock cycle, is the goal of

A. single-issue processors
B. dual-issue processors
C. multiple-issue processors
D. no-issue processors
Answer» D. no-issue processors
113.

Multithreading allowing multiple-threads for sharing the functional units of a

A. multiple processor
B. single processor
C. dual core
D. corei5
Answer» C. dual core
114.

When instruction i and instruction j are tends to write the same register or the memory location, it is called

A. input dependence
B. output dependence
C. ideal pipeline
D. digital call
Answer» C. ideal pipeline
115.

model based on the passing of stream of data through process arranged in a succession is called as

A. producer consumer model
B. hybrid model
C. task graph model
D. work pool model
Answer» B. hybrid model
116.

Having load before the store in a running program order, then interchanging this order, results in a

A. waw hazards
B. destination registers
C. war hazards
D. registers
Answer» D. registers
117.

which of the following is not an parallel algorithm model

A. data parallel model
B. task graph model
C. task model
D. work pool model
Answer» D. work pool model
118.

a code known as grid which runs on GPU consisting of a set of

A. 32 thread
B. unit block
C. 32 block
D. thread block
Answer» E.
119.

Which of the following correctly describes a GPU kernel

A. a kernel may contain a mix of host and gpu code
B. all thread blocks involved in the same computation use the same kernel
C. a kernel is part of the gpu\s internal micro-operating system, allowing it to act as in independent host
D. kernel may contain only host code
Answer» C. a kernel is part of the gpu\s internal micro-operating system, allowing it to act as in independent host
120.

True or false: Functions annotated with the __global__ qualifier may be executed on the host or the device

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
121.

The style of parallelism supported on GPUs is best described as

A. misd - multiple instruction single data
B. simt - single instruction multiple thread
C. sisd - single instruction single data
D. mimd
Answer» C. sisd - single instruction single data
122.

Which of the following is not a form of parallelism supported by CUDA

A. vector parallelism - floating point computations are executed in parallel on wide vector units
B. thread level task parallelism - different threads execute a different tasks
C. block and grid level parallelism - different blocks or grids execute different tasks
D. data parallelism - different threads and blocks process different parts of data in memory
Answer» B. thread level task parallelism - different threads execute a different tasks
123.

CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
124.

A good mapping does not depends on which following factor

A. knowledge of task sizes
B. the size of data associated with tasks
C. characteristics of inter-task interactions
D. task overhead
Answer» E.
125.

What is a high performance multi-core processor that can be used to accelerate a wide variety of applications using parallel computing.

A. cpu
B. dsp
C. gpu
D. clu
Answer» D. clu
126.

When the topological sort of a graph is unique?

A. a) when there exists a hamiltonian path in the graph
B. b) in the presence of multiple nodes with indegree 0
C. c) in the presence of single node with indegree 0
D. d) in the presence of single node with outdegree 0
Answer» B. b) in the presence of multiple nodes with indegree 0
127.

True or False: The threads in a thread block are distributed across SM units so that each thread is executed by one SM unit.

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
128.

threads being block altogether and being executed in the sets of 32 threads called a

A. thread block
B. 32 thread
C. 32 block
D. unit block
Answer» B. 32 thread
129.

Topological sort of a Directed Acyclic graph is?

A. a) always unique
B. b) always not unique
C. c) sometimes unique and sometimes not unique
D. d) always unique if graph has even number of vertices
Answer» D. d) always unique if graph has even number of vertices
130.

CUDA thought that 'unifying theme' of every form of parallelism is

A. cda thread
B. pta thread
C. cuda thread
D. cud thread
Answer» D. cud thread
131.

blocking optimization is used to improve temmporal locality for reduce

A. hit miss
B. misses
C. hit rate
D. cache misses
Answer» C. hit rate
132.

which of the following is not the array distribution method of data partitioning

A. block
B. cyclic
C. block cyclic
D. chunk
Answer» E.
133.

In ------------task are defined before starting the execution of the algorithm

A. dynamic task
B. static task
C. regular task
D. one way task
Answer» C. regular task
134.

Which of the following is not an application of topological sorting?

A. a) finding prerequisite of a task
B. b) finding deadlock in an operating system
C. c) finding cycle in a graph
D. d) ordered statistics
Answer» E.
135.

In most of the cases, topological sort starts from a node which has __________

A. a) maximum degree
B. b) minimum degree
C. c) any degree
D. d) zero degree
Answer» E.
136.

Topological sort can be applied to which of the following graphs?

A. a) undirected cyclic graphs
B. b) directed cyclic graphs
C. c) undirected acyclic graphs
D. d) directed acyclic graphs
Answer» E.
137.

which of the following is not an example of explorative decomposition

A. n queens problem
B. 15 puzzal problem
C. tic tac toe
D. quick sort
Answer» E.
138.

In this decomposition problem decomposition goes hand in hand with its execution

A. data decomposition
B. recursive decomposition
C. explorative decomposition
D. speculative decomposition
Answer» D. speculative decomposition
139.

which problems can be handled by recursive decomposition

A. backtracking
B. greedy method
C. divide and conquer problem
D. branch and bound
Answer» D. branch and bound
140.

which of the following is a an example of data decomposition

A. matrix multiplication
B. merge sort
C. quick sort
D. 15 puzzal
Answer» B. merge sort
141.

which of the following is not a granularity type

A. course grain
B. large grain
C. medium grain
D. fine grain
Answer» C. medium grain
142.

In task dependency graph longest directed path between any pair of start and finish node is called as --------------

A. total work
B. critical path
C. task path
D. task length
Answer» C. task path
143.

Task dependency graph is ------------------

A. directed
B. undirected
C. directed acyclic
D. undirected acyclic
Answer» D. undirected acyclic
144.

Renaming relative to the source is _____ the source.

A. xor
B. xnor
C. and
D. nand
Answer» B. xnor
145.

the procedure is disturbed and require only point-to-point _______

A. synchronization
B. communication
C. both
D. none
Answer» B. communication
146.

every node has to know when to communicate that is

A. call the procedure
B. call for broadcast
C. call for communication
D. call the congestion
Answer» B. call for broadcast
147.

Nides with zero in i least significant bits participate in _______

A. algorithm
B. broadcast
C. communication
D. searching
Answer» D. searching
148.

For sake of simplicity, the number of nodes is a power of

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Answer» C. 3
149.

In one -to- all broadcast there is

A. divide and conquer type algorithm
B. sorting type algorithm
C. searching type algorithm
D. simple algorithm
Answer» B. sorting type algorithm
150.

In a balanced binary tree processing nodes is equal to

A. leaves
B. number of elemnts
C. branch
D. none
Answer» B. number of elemnts