MCA MAGADH UNIVERSITY QUESTION (2011-2014) (Fifth Semester) COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

MCA MAGADH UNIVERSITY QUESTION (2011-2014) (Fifth Semester) COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE 

                                                                       Time: 4 hours
                                                                       Full marks: 80
                                                         The questions are of equal value.
                                                             Answer any five questions.

1. Discuss the features of parallel processing with advantages and disadvantages.

2. Explain the parallelism in uniprocessor system and what is three shared memory multiprocessor model.

3. Briefly explain the conditions of parallelism. What do you mean by program partitioning and scheduling.

4. Write short notes on any four of the following:
    (a) Data dependence
    (b) K-ary n-cube network
    (c) Multistages connection networks
    (d) Hypercubes
    (e) Resource dependence
    (f) Program flow
    (g) Systolic arrays

5. Explain the temporal locality, spatial locality and sequential locality associate with program/ data access in a memory hierarchy.

6. What do you mean by super scalar and vector processor, briefly explain.

7. Explain physical address cache versus virtual address cache.

8. Define bus cache and its role. Explain the shared memory organisation.

9. Define thread and explain the principles of multithreading.

10. Write short notes on any two of the following:
       (a) Hybrid architecture
       (b) Latancy hiding techniques
       (c) Scalable and multithreaded architecture