ECE625_Topic5

A potential advantage to having only dedicate L2 caches on the chip is that each core enjoys more rapid access to its private L2 cache.

• True

• False

Name the illustrated organization for a multicore computer chip.

• Dedicated L1 Cache

• Dedicated L2 Cache

• Shared L2 Cache

• Shared L3 Cache

Name the illustrated organization for a multicore computer chip.

• Dedicated L1 Cache

• Dedicated L2 Cache

• Shared L2 Cache

• Shared L3 Cache

___________ states that performance increase is roughly proportional to square root of increase in complexity.

• Pollack’s Rule

• Moore’s Law

• Amdahl’s Law

• MOESI Rule

One way to control power density is to use more of the chip area for ________.

• multicore

• cache memory

• silicon

• resistors

________ is a multithreaded process that provides scheduling and memory management for Java applications.

• Javascript

• Database Management System

• Java Virtual Machine

• Windows

The increasingly difficult engineering challenge related to processor logic is one of the reasons that an increasing fraction of the processor chip is devote to the simpler memory logic.

• True

• False

Putting rendering on one processor, AI on another, and physics on another is an example of _________ threading.

• coarse-grained

• multi-instance

• fine-grained

• hybrid

Name the illustrated organization for a multicore computer chip.

• Dedicated L1 Cache

• Dedicated L2 Cache

• Shared L2 Cache

• Shared L3 Cache

With superscalar organization increased performance can be achieved by increasing the number of parallel pipelines.

• True

• False