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This set of High Performance Computing HPC Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on High Performance Computing Set 16

Q1 | The___ time collectively spent by all the processing elements Tall = p TP?
  • total
  • average
  • mean
  • sum
Q2 | The dual of one-to-all broadcast is ?
  • all-to-one reduction
  • all-to-one receiver
  • all-to-one sum
  • none of above
Q3 | A hypercube has?
  • 2d nodes
  • 2n nodes
  • n nodes
Q4 | The Prefix Sum Operation can be implemented using the ?
  • all-to-all broadcast kernel.
  • all-to-one broadcast kernel.
  • one-to-all broadcast kernel
  • scatter kernel
Q5 | In the scatter operation ?
  • single node send a unique message of size m to every other node
  • single node send a same message of size m to every other node
  • single node send a unique message of size m to next node
  • none of above
Q6 | The gather operation is exactly the inverse of the ?
  • scatter operation
  • broadcast operation
  • prefix sum
  • reduction operation
Q7 | Parallel algorithms often require a single process to send identical data to all other processes or to a subset of them. This operation is known as _________?
  • one-to-all broadcast
  • all to one broadcast
  • one-to-all reduction
  • all to one reduction
Q8 | In which of the following operation, a single node sends a unique message of size m to every other node?
  • gather
  • scatter
  • one to all personalized communication
  • both a and c
Q9 | Gather operation is also known as ________?
  • one to all personalized communication
  • one to all broadcast
  • all to one reduction
  • all to all broadcast
Q10 | Conventional architectures coarsely comprise of a?
  • a processor
  • memory system
  • data path.
  • all of above
Q11 | Data intensive applications utilize?
  • high aggregate throughput
  • high aggregate network bandwidth
  • high processing and memory system performance.
  • none of above
Q12 | A pipeline is like?
  • overlaps various stages of instruction execution to achieve performance.
  • house pipeline
  • both a and b
  • a gas line
Q13 | Scheduling of instructions is determined?
  • true data dependency
  • resource dependency
  • branch dependency
  • all of above
Q14 | VLIW processors rely on?
  • compile time analysis
  • initial time analysis
  • final time analysis
  • mid time analysis
Q15 | Memory system performance is largely captured by?
  • latency
  • bandwidth
  • both a and b
  • none of above
Q16 | The fraction of data references satisfied by the cache is called?
  • cache hit ratio
  • cache fit ratio
  • cache best ratio
  • none of above
Q17 | A single control unit that dispatches the same Instruction to various processors is?
  • simd
  • spmd
  • mimd
  • none of above
Q18 | The primary forms of data exchange between parallel tasks are?
  • accessing a shared data space
  • exchanging messages.
  • both a and b
  • none of above
Q19 | The First step in developing a parallel algorithm is?
  • to decompose the problem into tasks that can be executed concurrently
  • execute directly
  • execute indirectly
  • none of above
Q20 | The Owner Computes Rule generally states that the process assigned a particular data item are responsible for?
  • all computation associated with it
  • only one computation
  • only two computation
  • only occasionally computation
Q21 | A simple application of exploratory decomposition is?
  • the solution to a 15 puzzle
  • the solution to 20 puzzle
  • the solution to any puzzle
  • none of above
Q22 | Speculative Decomposition consist of ?
  • conservative approaches
  • optimistic approaches
  • both a and b
  • only b
Q23 | Task characteristics include?
  • task generation.
  • task sizes.
  • size of data associated with tasks.
  • all of above.
Q24 | The dual of one-to-all broadcast is?
  • all-to-one reduction
  • all-to-one receiver
  • all-to-one sum
  • none of above
Q25 | A hypercube has?
  • 2d nodes
  • 3d nodes
  • 2n nodes
  • n nodes