GPU Computing Assignment 0

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1. 100% Which one of the following five statements about current computers is false?
   Disks are the most common backup media for disks
   High-end processor clock frequency is often around a few GHz
   "Core" could refer to either main memory or a PE in a processor chip
   A well-designed PC will usally run hotter with the case open than closed
   Parallel processing is only used in supercomputers; PC processors do one thing at a time
2. 100% Here's one to look up in the history reference materials.... Which one of the following people is was once best known for authoring a very popular interpreter for the BASIC programming language?
   Bill Gates
   Alan Turing
   Konrad Zuse
   John von Neumann
   Grace Murray Hopper
3. 100%
   
   In 1991, Intel's 80386 contained about 275,000 transistors. Given that, about how many of these processors would fit on a chip using the state-of-the-art technologies that Intel currently uses for their processors?
   1
   10
   100
   10,000
   1,000,000
4. 100% Which of the following five terms refers to computer hardware at the highest abstraction level?
   Die
   Gate
   Transistor
   Function Unit or Module
   Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
5. 100% Which one of the following five statements about how computer technology has been changing over the last few decades is false?
   Processors have been getting faster.
   Disk drive capacity has been increasing.
   Main memory capacity has been increasing.
   Power consumption per transistor has been increasing.
   The complexity of circuitry that fits on a single chip has been increasing.
6. 100% Which one of the following five choices is specified as part of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?
   The processor clock frequency range
   The bit patterns that encode each instruction
   The function units and data paths between them
   The types of gates used to construct the processor
   The number of clock cycles taken to execute each instruction
7. 50%, 50% Which you you expect will be faster in 2015: reading a word from memory or executing a integer add operation within a processor core? Why?
   

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