CS6068Week 2 Quiz

• What are David Patterson’s Three Wall of Computer Architecture?

• How do multi-core, many-core, and heterogeneous core computers differ?

• What is a petaflop and how many do world’s fastest computers have?

• At OSC, how many teraflops does Oakley/Ruby have at peak?

• What measure can we use to identify the power consumption of computing device?

• What is the difference between shared memory and distributed memory machines?

• In which model are data conflicts more prevalent?

• In functional programming are there more or fewer memory conflicts?

• what is a map operation?

• What is CUDA?

• Is it shared memory or distributed memory?