BARANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMEN SCIENCES

Mid-Term Exam Summer Semester 2022

Course Title: Parallel & Distributed Computing Course Code: CS-687
Discipline /Program: BSCS Total Marks: 12
Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes Instructor’s Name: Ms. Sadia
Zar

Question 01 [3 Marks]:
Explain the basic concepts of serial computing and describe various
applications of parallel computing.
Question 02 [3 Marks]:
Flynn's classification is based on multiplicity of instruction stream and
data stream observed by CPU during program execution. Explain in
detail.
Question 03 [3 Marks]:
Differentiate between bit-level and instruction-level architecture using
an example.
Question 04 [3 Marks]:
What is Grid computing? How it is different from cluster computing?