Top 250+ Solved High Performance Computing (HPC) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. In parallel quick sort Pivot selecton strategy is crucial for
a. maintaing load balance
b. maintaining uniform distribution of elements in process groups
c. effective pivot selection in next level
d. all of the above
Q. Which Parallel formulation of Quick sort is possible
a. shared-address-space parallel formulation
b. message passing formulation
c. hypercube formulation
d. all of the above
Q. Which formulation of Dijkstra's algorithm exploits more parallelism
a. source-partitioned formulation
b. source-parallel formulation
c. partitioned-parallel formulation
d. all of above
Q. the BlockPerGrid and ThreadPerBlock parameters are related to the ________ model supported by CUDA.
a. host
b. kernel
c. thread abstraction
d. none of above
Q. Cache memory works on the principle of
a. locality of data
b. locality of memory
c. locality of reference
d. locality of reference & memory
Q. SIMD represents an organization that ______________.
a. refers to a computer system capable of processing several programs at the same time.
b. represents organization of single computer containing a control unit, processor unit and a memory unit.
c. includes many processing units under the supervision of a common control unit
d. none of the above.
Q. Select different aspects of parallelism
a. server applications utilize high aggregate network bandwidth
b. scientific applications typically utilize high processing and memory system performance
c. all of the above
d. data intensive applications utilize high aggregate throughput
Q. Analyze, if the second instruction has data dependencies with the first, but the third instruction does not, the first
a. out-of-order
b. both of the above
c. none of the above
d. in-order
Q. Select the parameters which captures Memory system performance
a. bandwidth
b. both of the above
c. none of the above
d. latency
Q. Consider the example of a fire- hose. If the water comes out of the hose five seconds after the hydrant is turned on. Once the water starts flowing, if the hydrant delivers water at the rate of 15 gallons/second. Analyze the bandwidth and latency.
a. bandwidth: 5*15 gallons/second and latency: 15 seconds
b. bandwidth: 15 gallons/second and latency: 5 seconds
c. bandwidth: 3 gallons/second and latency: 5 seconds
d. bandwidth: 5 gallons/second and latency: 15 seconds