Here's the third set of question paper for Advanced Computer Architecture set 2 and Advanced Computer Architecture set 1. Read on to get the 3rd set of this question paper.
1. a) Summarize some of the most important functional requirements of a computer architecture.
b) Discuss the major factors that influence the cost of a computer and show how these factors are changing over time.
2. a) Categorize the operations supported by most instruction set architectures.
b) What makes pipeline hard to implement?
c) Distinguish among the four different types of control flow change.
3. a) Describe static branch prediction to reduce the branch cost in pipelining.
b) Describe the hardware based speculation for control dependency hazards.
4. a) What does a virtual machine (VM) monitor do? Give an example of VM.
b) Describe the following for ILP.
i) Use of direct mapped cache to reduce hit time.
ii) Use of non blocking cache to increase the cache bandwidth.
5. a) Discuss the issues that are involved for implementation of hardware speculation.
b) List the advantages and disadvantages of hardware intensive approach to speculation over the software approach.
6. a) Give the Schematic diagram for a multiprocessor with uniform memory access using an interconnection network.
b) Describe directory based cache coherence protocol for distributed memory multiprocessors.
7. a) How the data availability and reliability increases with use of RAID.
b) Describe the 6 levels of RAID.
8. Write short notes on any two of the following.
a) Advanced cache optimizations.
b) VLIW approach
c) Clusters
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Code No: M0523, Set: 03
IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November, 2011
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
b) Discuss the major factors that influence the cost of a computer and show how these factors are changing over time.
2. a) Categorize the operations supported by most instruction set architectures.
b) What makes pipeline hard to implement?
c) Distinguish among the four different types of control flow change.
3. a) Describe static branch prediction to reduce the branch cost in pipelining.
b) Describe the hardware based speculation for control dependency hazards.
4. a) What does a virtual machine (VM) monitor do? Give an example of VM.
b) Describe the following for ILP.
i) Use of direct mapped cache to reduce hit time.
ii) Use of non blocking cache to increase the cache bandwidth.
5. a) Discuss the issues that are involved for implementation of hardware speculation.
b) List the advantages and disadvantages of hardware intensive approach to speculation over the software approach.
6. a) Give the Schematic diagram for a multiprocessor with uniform memory access using an interconnection network.
b) Describe directory based cache coherence protocol for distributed memory multiprocessors.
7. a) How the data availability and reliability increases with use of RAID.
b) Describe the 6 levels of RAID.
8. Write short notes on any two of the following.
a) Advanced cache optimizations.
b) VLIW approach
c) Clusters
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