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M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
(Second Year)
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Advanced Computer Architecture
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
SECTION A × 15 45)
Answer any Three questions
Q1) Explain about the design of Pipelined instruction processing.
Q2) Explain about the architecture of Cyber 205.
Q3) Explain about mesh connected illiac networks.
Q4) Explain about the language features of exploit parallelism.
Q5) Explain about the Systolic Array architecture.
SECTION B × 4 20)
Answer any Five questions
Q6) Explain about multiprocessor systems.
Q7) Explain about prefetch and branch handling schemes.
Q8) Explain about vector loops in Cray-I.
Q9) Explain about SIMD matrix multiplication algorithm.
Q10) List and describe the applications of illiac IV.
Q11) Explain about the classification of parallel algorithms.
Q12) Explain about the difference between control flow and dataflow computers.
Q13) Explain about Cray X-mp system architecture.
SECTION C × 1
Answer all questions
Q14) Explain about Virtual Memory.
Q15) Explain about SIMD networks.
Q16) Explain about crossbar switch.
Q17) What is static data flow computer?
Q18) What is Cache memory?