The problem of finding the minimum in a list is an example of decomposition of data based on _______________.

• A) both input and output data
• B) output data
• C) input data
• D) intermediate data

________ of Stanford University considers power and massive parallelism as the major benefits of GPUs over CPUs for the future.

• A) Bill Dally
• B) Geoffrey Hinton
• C) John McCarthy
• D) Larry Page

_________ consist of point-to-point communication links among processing nodes and are also referred to as direct networks.

• A) Bus networks
• B) Dynamic networks
• C) Indirect networks
• D) Static networks

____________ is a special class of distributed data-store which is characterized by the lack of simultaneous updates. Here, the emphasis is more on maintaining a consistent view of things for the individual client process that is currently operating on the data-store.

• A) Sequential model
• B) Data consistency model
• C) Client centric consistency model
• D) Incremental model

Number of bits transmitted in a unit of time is known as____________.

• A) bisection
• B) diameter
• C) bandwidth
• D) latency

In _________ communication, the sender waits for a response from the receiver before proceeding with further execution. This ensures that the sender and receiver are in sync with each other.

• A) synchronous
• B) buffered
• C) unbuffered
• D) asynchronous

Which of the following option is not the communication mode that can be used for message passing programming?

• A) Buffered/unbuffered
• B) Verbal/non-verbal
• C) Blocking/non-blocking
• D) Synchronous/asynchronous

In __________ control strategy, one central control unit is used to control the operations of the components of the system.

• A) distributed
• B) supervised
• C) centralized
• D) decentralized

___________ is a method of communication in distributed systems where processes or objects exchange messages with each other to share information or coordinate activities.

• A) Deadlock
• B) Concurrency
• C) Caching
• D) Message passing

POSIX API, also referred to as_________________.

• A) Pthreads
• B) POSIXthreads
• C) Jthreads
• D) SRthreads

The ________ specifies a standard 1003.1c-1995, POSIX API, also referred to as Pthreads

• A) IEEE
• B) IBM
• C) CISCO
• D) ISO

To access the shared data, a thread must first try to __________.

• A) acquire Mutex-lock
• B) do both unlock Mutex-lock and enter to the critical section
• C) unlock Mutex-lock
• D) enter to critical section

The _________ consistency model states that, when no updates occur for a long period of time, eventually all updates will propagate through the system and all the replicas will be consistent.

• A) eventual
• B) casual
• C) sequential
• D) incremental

In _________ topology, all devices are connected to a central switch, which makes it easy to add new nodes without rebooting all currently connected devices.

• A) star
• B) bus
• C) mesh
• D) switch

In task dependency graph, ______ indicating that the result of one task is required for processing the next.

• A) first node
• B) node
• C) last node
• D) edge

___________ is a chip or electronic circuit capable of rendering graphics for display on an electronic device.

• A) Command Processing Unit (CPU)
• B) Gateway Processing Unit (GPU)
• C) Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• D) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Adding more compute nodes increases the following except ______________________.

• A) Bandwidth
• B) flops/s
• C) I/O
• D) Aggregate memory

Parallel I/O uses ________ I/O devices to read or write data in parallel.

• A) only three
• B) only two
• C) single
• D) multiple