ACA Internal II QP

NEHRU INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

INTERNAL EXAM II

 Subject :Advanced Computer Architecture                                                         DATE:

Subject code: CS2354                                                                                        Total Marks : 50 marks

PART A

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTION     

1.       Difference between fine grained and coarse grained multithreading?

2.       What is VLIW processor?

3.       What is sequential consistency?

4.       Disadvantages of symmetric shared memory?

5.       What is cache coherence problem?

PART B

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS                                                                                                                 (2*12=24)

6 .Explain Distributed shared memory architecture?

Or

Explain Symmetric shared memory Architecture?

7. a. Explain synchronization? (6)

   b. Explain IA 64 architecture?(6)

Or

a.       Explain various memory consistency models(6)

b.      Explain multithreading(6)

                         PART C                                                                        

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS                                                                                                              (1*16=16)

8. Explain Advanced compiler techniques for exposing ILP(16)

Or

1. Explain IA 64 Architecture(10)
2. Explain storage devices(6)