Top 250+ Solved High Performance Computing (HPC) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Computer system of a parallel computer is capable of_____________
a. decentralized computing
b. parallel computing
c. centralized computing
d. all of these
Q. In which application system Distributed systems can run well?
a. hpc
b. distrubuted framework
c. hrc
d. none of the above
Q. A pipeline is like .................... ?
a. an automobile assembly line
b. house pipeline
c. both a and b
d. a gas line
Q. Pipeline implements ?
a. fetch instruction
b. decode instruction
c. fetch operand
d. all of above
Q. A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called ______ ?
a. super-scaling
b. pipe-lining
c. parallel computation
d. none of these
Q. VLIW stands for ?
a. very long instruction word
b. very long instruction width
c. very large instruction word
d. very long instruction width
Q. Which one is not a limitation of a distributed memory parallel system?
a. higher communication time
b. cache coherency
c. synchronization overheads
d. none of the above
Q. Which of these steps can create conflict among the processors?
a. synchronized computation of local variables
b. concurrent write
c. concurrent read
d. none of the above
Q. Which one is not a characteristic of NUMA multiprocessors?
a. it allows shared memory computing
b. memory units are placed in physically different location
c. all memory units are mapped to one common virtual global memory
d. processors access their independent local memories
Q. Which of these is not a source of overhead in parallel computing?
a. non-uniform load distribution
b. less local memory requirement in distributed computing
c. synchronization among threads in shared memory computing
d. none of the above
Q. Systems that do not have parallel processing capabilities are?
a. sisd
b. simd
c. mimd
d. all of the above
Q. How does the number of transistors per chip increase according to Moore ´s law?
a. quadratically
b. linearly
c. cubicly
d. exponentially
Q. Parallel processing may occur?
a. in the instruction stream
b. in the data stream
c. both[a] and [b]
d. none of the above
Q. To which class of systems does the von Neumann computer belong?
a. simd (single instruction multiple data)
b. mimd (multiple instruction multiple data)
c. misd (multiple instruction single data)
d. sisd (single instruction single data)
Q. Fine-grain threading is considered as a ______ threading?
a. instruction-level
b. loop level
c. task-level
d. function-level