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This assignment was assigned by Prof. Rasul Rangarajan at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology for Parallel Processing course. It includes: Processing Speed, Number, Cores, Family, Operating, System, Interconnect, Application, Area, Vendor
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Question #01 [36 marks] Consult the latest 10 lists of Top500 fastest computer and tabulate the names and count of best choice under each of the following category: 1 ‐ Processing Speed 2 ‐ Number of Cores 3 ‐ Processor Family 4 ‐ Operating System Family 5 ‐ Interconnect Family 6 ‐ Application Area 7 ‐ Vendor 8 ‐ Country Analyze the profile in the above table and comments on the trends in each category. Question #02 [24 marks] Draw the block diagram of most powerful pipeline, superscalar and VLIW processor. Identify major architectural features for each. Question #03 [40 marks] Choose one of the most popular/powerful parallel processor build by industrial/research groups in each of the following category and give the architectural block diagram and main features for each 1 ‐ UMA 2 ‐ NUMA 3 ‐ MPP 4 ‐ Cluster System