MCSE-011 Parallel Computing Solved Assignment 2018-2019

Course Code : MCSE-011
Course Title : Parallel Computing
Assignment Number : MCA (V)/E011/Assignment/2018-19
Maximum Marks : 100
Weightage : 25%
Last Dates for Submission : 15thOctober, 2018 (For July session)
15th April, 2019 (For January session)

Note: 20 marks are for viva voce. All questions given carry equal marks. Answer
all the questions. You may use illustrations and diagrams to enhance the
explanations. Please go through the guidelines regarding assignments given in
the Programme Guide for the format of presentation.

Question 1: Compare the advantages and disadvantages of three interleaved memory
organisations: the S-access, the C-access and the C/S-access for pipelined vector
processing. In the comparison, you should be concerned with the issues on effective
memory bandwidth, storage schemes used, access conflict resolution and costeffective
tradeoffs.
Question 2: Explain the following system features associated with the Illiac-IV, the
BSP, and the MPP array processors: (a) Multi-array configurations of the Illiac-IV (b)
The prime memory for the BSP (c) The bit-slice operations in the MPP (d) Concurrent
scalar-array operations in the BSP (e) Concurrent I/O and arithmetic logic operations
in the MPP (f) The staging memory configurations in the MPP (g) Host computers
for the Illiac-IV, the BSP, and the MPP (h) The I/O facilities in the Illiac-IV, the BSP
and the MPP