Questão 1
Questão
Consider the following code. Assume the compiler is performing no optimization. Which of the following strategies would improve the speed of this code the most in the case where it returns true?
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Unroll the loop
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Pull the (x % i)==0 into a function isDivisibleBy
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Declare int sx = (int)sqrt(x) and change i < sqrt(x) to i < s
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Move the check for (x % 2) != 0 to before the loop
Questão 2
Questão
By default, OpenMp _____ assigns loop iterations to threads. When the parallel for block is entered, it assigns each thread the set of loop iterations it is to execute?
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static
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runtime
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dynamic
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auto
Questão 3
Questão
OpenMP assigns one iteration to each thread. When the thread finishes, it will be assigned the next iteration that hasn’t been executed yet.
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runtime
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dynamic
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static
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auto
Questão 4
Questão
This is an example of? (IMAGE)
/*set elements of array to 0*/
void clear_array (int *desc, int n){
int i;
for (i = 0; i<n; i++)
dest[i] = 0;
}
/*set elements of array to 0, Unrolled X4*/
...
...
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Loop Unrolling
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Loop fission
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none
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Loop fusion
Questão 5
Questão
This is an example of? (IMAGE)
/*convert string to lowercase: slow*/
void lower1 (char *s)
{ int i;
for (i = 0; i < strlen(s); i++)
if (s{i} >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z')
s[i] -= ('A' - 'a');
}
/*Convert string to lowercase: faster*/
void lower2(char *s) {
...
...
}
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Loop fission
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Code motion
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Loop unrolling
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Loop blocking
Questão 6
Questão
In given two C modules which rule will Unix linker use to resolve multiple symbol definition?
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Given a strong symbol and multiple weak symbols, choose the strong symbol.
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Given multiple weak symbols, chose any of the weak symbols
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Multiple strong symbols are not allowed.
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None of these
Questão 7
Questão
In C, on a 34-bit x86 machine, the expression (1<<31) results in a negative integer
Questão 8
Questão
Which of the following move operations is the following instruction an example of: movl (%edx), %eax ?
Questão 9
Questão
What is the value of the following C expression? x = 0xBC and y = 0x35 (x & !y)
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0x1200
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0xFFFF
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0x0001
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0x0000
Questão 10
Questão
In general, which of the following is slowest?
Questão 11
Questão
Good software design includes writing procedures for code you might otherwise repeat in-line. Pulling code into procedures can help some branch predictors; how else can it improve your program’s performance and/or your compiler’s ability to optimize your code?
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more opportunities for loop unrolling
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less chance of compiler having to worry about aliasing and side effects
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more opportunities for pipeline-level parallelism
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better instruction cache hit rate
Questão 12
Questão
This is an example of?
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Parrallel processing
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Serial processing
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none of the above
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Linear processing
Questão 13
Questão
This is an example of?
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Parallel processing
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Serial processing
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none of the above
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Linear processing
Questão 14
Questão
The code ( a && b ) || (!a && !b) implements —
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Equality
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MUX
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Adder
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Set membership
Questão 15
Questão
Consider the following code fragment (IMAGE)
int a; int b;
int main(int argc, char * argv[]){
int x;
int y;
… /* some code*/
}
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The value of &y is closer to the value of &x than to the value &
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The values of &a and &b are closer to each other then the values &x and &y
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The values of *a and *b are closer to each other than the values of *x and *y
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The value of *y is closer to the value of *x than to the value of *a
Questão 16
Questão
Compare the size of int and int*
Questão 17
Questão
In C, if x is an integer variable, the expression “x << 3” computes x * 8 but does not change the value of x.
Questão 18
Questão
Using a base address [Eb]%edx=0x1000, and index register [ei]%ecx=0x02, compute the effective address for (IMAGE) :
movl 8(%edx,%ecx, 4), %eax)
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0x1032
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0x1016
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0x1064
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0x1010
Questão 19
Questão
Using a base address [Eb]%edx=0x1000, and index register [ei]%ecx=0x03, compute the effective address for (IMAGE):
movl 8(%edx, %ecx, 4), %eax
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0x1032
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0x1016
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0x1064
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0x1014
Questão 20
Questão
What value ends up in EAX after the following code is executed?
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48 (decimal) or 00110000 (binary) or 0x30 (hex)
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50 (decimal) or 00110010 (binary) or 0x32 (hex)
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46 (decimal) or 00101110 (binary) or 0x2E (hex)
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52 (decimal) or 00110100 (binary) or 0x34 (hex)
Questão 21
Questão
Two computers A and B with a cache in the CPU chip differ only in that A has an L2 cache and B does not. Which of the following are possible?
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1 and 2 only
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1 only
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2 only
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2 and 3 only
Questão 22
Questão
Which of the following code snippets is fastest ? Assume n is very large(more than ten thousand)
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for(k=0; k<n; k+=16) for(l=0; l<n; l+=16)
for(j=0;j<16;j+=1) for(i=0;i<16;i+=1)
a[i+l][j+k] = b[j+k][i+l];
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two or more of the above are equivalently the fastest
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for(j=0;j<n;j+=1) for(i=0;i<n;i+=1) a[i][j] = b[j][i];
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for(i=0;i<n;i+=1) for(j=0;j<n;j+=1) a[i][j] = b[j][i];
Questão 23
Questão
Which of the following code snippets is fastest? Assume n is very large (more than ten thousand).
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for(i=0;i<n;i+=1) for(j=0;j<n;j+=1) a[i][j] = b[j][i];
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for(j=0;j<n;j+=1) for(i=0;i<n;i+=1) a[i][j] = b[j][i
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for(k=0; k<n; k+=16) for(l=0; l<n; l+=16)
for(j=0;j<16;j+=1) for(i=0;i<16;i+=1)
a[i+l][j+k] = b[i+l][j+k];
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two or more of the above are equivalently the fastest
Questão 24
Questão
Good software design includes writing procedures for code you might otherwise repeat in-line. Pulling code into procedures involves call/return overhead; how else can it HURT your program's performance and/or your compiler's ability to optimize your code?
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more chance of compiler having to worry about aliasing and side effects
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fewer opportunities for pipeline-level parallelism
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worse instruction cache hit rate
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fewer opportunities for loop unrolling
Questão 25
Questão
Good software design includes writing procedures for code you might otherwise repeat in-line. Pulling code into procedures can help some branch predictors; how else can it IMPROVE your program’s performance and/or your compiler’s ability to optimize your code?
Responda
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more opportunities for loop unrollin
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less chance of compiler having to worry about aliasing and side effects
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more opportunities for pipeline-level parallelism
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better instruction cache hit rate
Questão 26
Questão
Consider a direct-mapped cache with 256 sets and 16 byte blocks. In this cache the address 0x12345 maps to the same set as which of the following addresses?
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0x02345
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0x22244
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0x12354
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0x12040
Questão 27
Questão
Parallel processing mechanisms to achieve parallelism in uniprocessor system are:
Questão 28
Questão
This is an example of?
Questão 29
Questão
This is an example of? (IMAGE)
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None
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Loop unrolling
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Loop fusion
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Loop fission
Questão 30
Questão
This is an example of?
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Loop fission
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Loop fusion
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None
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Loop unrolling
Questão 31
Questão
Program take as input a collection of relocatable object files and command-line arguments and generate as output a fully linked executable object file that can be loaded and run:
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Static linker
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Dynamic linker
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Both
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None
Questão 32
Questão
... involve identifying a computation that is performed multiple times (e.g., within a loop), but such that the result of the computation will not change.
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Side effect
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Code motion
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Loop unrollin
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Memory aliasing
Questão 33
Questão
... construct encloses code, forming a parallel region.
Questão 34
Questão
... is the default schedule type. Upon entering the loop, each thread independently decides which chunk of the loop they will process.
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static
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dynamic
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runtime
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guided
Questão 35
Questão
By default, OpenMP _____ assigns loop iterations to threads. When the parallel for block is entered, it assigns each thread the set of loop iterations it is to execute?
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static
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dynamic
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runtime
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auto
Questão 36
Questão
The _______ directive causes threads encountering the barrier to wait until all the other threads in the same team have encountered the barrier.
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single
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barrier
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nowait
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private