GTU Computer Engineering (Semester 8)
Parallel Processing
June 2014
Total marks: --
Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


1 (a) Explain Cache Coherence in Multiprocessor Systems.
7 M
1 (b) What is Data Decomposition? Explain Data Decomposition with proper example.
7 M

2 (a) Explain All-Reduce and Prefix-Sum operation on Hypercube and also write algorithm or it.
7 M
2 (b) List Various Network Topologies. Explain Crossbar and Multistage Networks.
7 M
2 (c) Write steps for All-to-All Personalized communication on Mesh and Ring Network.
7 M

3 (a) Explain Different Performance Metrics for Parallel Systems. Explain Speedup in detail.
7 M
3 (b) Write short note on how mutex-locks and condition variable is use for synchronizing shared data in Shared-address-space programming in Pthreads.
7 M
3 (c) Explain Recursive Decomposition technique to find minimum number from array. Draw task dependency graph for following data. 4, 9, 2, 6, 1, 7, 8, 11, 5, 3, 2, 12.
7 M
3 (d) Explain Blocking Non-Buffered Send/Receive and Blocking Buffered Send/Receive for message passing operation.
7 M

4 (a) Explain thread creation, termination and cancellation in detail in shared-address-space parallel system.
7 M
4 (b) Explain following function with respect to MPI.
(1) MPI_Send (2)MPI_Scatter (3) MPI_Gather (4) MPI_Recv
7 M
4 (c) Explain thread creation, termination and cancellation in detail in shared-address-space parallel system.
7 M
4 (d) Explain Matrix-Multiplication using DNS Algorithm.
7 M

5 (a) Explain Mapping of Bionic sort to a Hypercube and Mesh.
7 M
5 (b) Explain Parallel formulation of Prim's Algorithm to find MST.
7 M
5 (c) Write and Explain Floyd's Algorithm for all-pairs shortest paths with an example.
7 M
5 (d) Write and Explain Algorithm for ODD-EVEN Transposition Sort. Also sort following Data. 1, 3, 8, 2, 9, 4, 6, 5.
7 M



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