CS-12 Computer Architecture Dec-2002
Question Paper of CS-12 Computer Architecture Dec-2002
Ql(i) The SPARC architecture can be implemented with two to eight register windows for a total of 40 to 130 GPRs (General Purposed Registers) in the integer unit. Explain how the following designs.
(a) Use 10 GPRs to construct two windows.
(b) Use 72 registers (GPRs) to construct four windows.
© In what sense is the SPARC considered a scalable architecture?
(d) Explain how to use the overlapped windows for parameter passing between the calling procedure and the called procedure.
Ql(ii) Answer the following question:
(a) Comment on the advantages in using SIMD computers as compared with the use of pipelined supercomputers for vector processing.
(b) Describe the language features of parallelism.
© Describe the basic metrics affecting the scalability of a computer system for a given application.
(d) Make diagrams of mesh and torus interconnection network and describe its characteristics.