Questions and Answers of Computer Organization And Architecture Designing For Performance

What is the key distinguishing feature of a microprocessor?
List and briefly define some of the techniques used in contemporary processors to increase speed.
Explain the differences among multicore systems, MICs, and GPGPUs.
Explain the concept of performance balance.
Briefly characterize Amdahl’s law.
Briefly characterize Little’s law.
Define MIPS and FLOPS.
List and define three methods for calculating a mean value of a set of data values.
List the desirable characteristics of a benchmark program.
What are the SPEC benchmarks?
The owner of a shop observes that on average 18 customers per hour arrive, and there are typically 8 customers in the shop. What is the average length of time each customer spends in the shop?
What are the differences among base metric, peak metric, speed metric, and rate metric?
In Figure 2.8a , jobs arrive at times t = 0, 1, 1.5, 3.25, 5.25 and 7.75. The corresponding completion times are t = 2, 3, 3.5, 4.25, 8.25 and 8.75.a. Determine the area of each of the six rectangles
Assume that a benchmark program executes in 480 seconds on a reference machine A. The same program executes on systems B, C, and D in 360, 540, and 210 seconds, respectively.a. Show the speedup of

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