DAYANANDA SAGAR ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Udayapura, Kanakapura Road, Bangalore- 82

(Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi and Approved by AICTE, New Delhi)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

(Accredited by NBA for 3 years (26-7-18 to 30-6-2021), NewDelhi)

Subject: Advanced Computer Architecture Subject Code: 15CS72

Faculty: Dr V.keerthika Class: VII Sem CSE ‘A’&’B’ Sec
Course Outcomes:

CO1: Explain the concepts of parallel computing

CO2: Understand the hardware technologies
CO3: Compare and contrast the parallel architectures
CO4: Illustrate parallel programming concepts
CO5: Understand Instruction and System level parallelism

Assignment - 1

1. Explain the various system attributes affecting performance (Explain Performance factors
vs system attributes). (8M, Jan 2019)
2. a. Explain the architecture of vector super computer with neat diagram. (4M, Jan 2019)
b. Explain with diagram the operational model of SIMD super computer. (4M, July 2019)
3. a. Discuss the conditions of parallelism. Explain Data, Control and Resource
Dependence. (6M, Jan 2019)
b. Differentiate the characteristics of CISC and RISC architectures.
(2M, Jan 2019, Jul 2019)
4. Describe Bernstein’s conditions for parallelism. Detect the parallelism in the following
code using Berstein’s conditions. (Assume no pipeline) (8M, Jan 2019)
P1: C = D X E; P2: M= G + C; P3: A = B+C; P4: C=L+M; P5: G / E
5. With a diagram, explain the operation of tagged token data flow computer.
(8M, July 2019)
6. a. Explain Scalability Metrics and Goals of computer architecture. (Explain the metrics
affecting scalability of a computer). (5M, Jan 2019)
b. Explain the characteristics of Parallel Algorithms. (3M, Jan 2019)
7. Explain the architectural models of a basic scalar computer system using block diagrams.
(8M, July 2019)
8. Draw and explain the block diagram of a typical superscalar RISC processor architecture
consisting of an integer unit and a floating-point unit. (8M, July 2019)
9. Explain Flynn’s Classical Taxonomy (Flynn’s Classification of Computer Architectures).
(8M, RS)
10. a. With a diagram, explain the hierarchical memory technology. (3M, July 2019)
b. Explain inclusion, coherence and locality properties. (5M, Jan 2019)
11. Explain address translation mechanism using TLB and page table. (8M, Jan 2019)
12. What is arbitration? Explain different types of arbitration. (8M, Jan 2019,
July 2019)