5/2/2021 Exam 03 Multiple Choice: CMPSC 450 Spring 2021
Exam 03 Multiple Choice
Due Apr 21 at 8:50am Points 9 Questions 9
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Question 1
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One method for modelling communication time in a network is:
latency and bandwidth clock cycles
DRAM gap
Amdhal’s Law
Question 2
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Question 3
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Which topology could an all-connected network simulate?
Ring network Tree Network 2D Mesh
3D Torus
All of the above
Which is a valid number of processors in a hypercube network topology?
10 24 36 64
Question 4
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Which algorithm requires an initial shift of data before the first iteration can begin?
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Question 5
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Which algorithm can have it’s sub regions broken up into smaller blocks?
SUMMA Cannon
Question 6
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Which algorithm can handle non-square matrices?
SUMMA Cannon
Incorrect
SUMMA Cannon
Question 7
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Which of the following rules does MPI NOT conform to:
The same program runs on all processes.
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Question 8
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Flipping the order of send and receive calls in MPI based on rank is a common way to avoid these issues:
pipeline bubbles race cases O(log N) deadlock
The program is written in a sequential language like Fortran, C or C++. MPI nodes on the same processor can share memory.
All variables in a process are local to this process.
Question 9
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The equivalent to threadID in MPI is called:
order rank poll O(log N)
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