15.01 - Processors and Parallel Processing

Question 1

CISC

Answer 1

Complex instruction set computer

Question 2

RISC

Answer 2

Reduced instruction set computer

Question 3

Pipelining

Answer 3

Allows several instructions to be processed simultaneously without having to wait for previous instructions to finish

Question 4

Parallel processing

Answer 4

Single instruction single data, computer architecture which uses a single processor and one data source

Question 5

SISD

Answer 5

Single instruction single data, computer architecture which uses a single processor and one data source

Question 6

SIMD

Answer 6

Single instruction multiple data, computer architecture which uses many processors and different data inputs

Question 7

MISD

Answer 7

Multiple instruction single data, computer architecture which uses many processors but the same shared data source

Question 8

MIMD

Answer 8

Multiple instruction multiple data, computer architecture which uses many processors, each of which can use a separate data source

Question 9

Cluster

Answer 9

A number of computers (containing SIMD processors) working together

Question 10

Super computer

Answer 10

A powerful mainframe computer

Question 11

Massively parallel computers

Answer 11

The linking together of several computers effectively forming one machine with thousands of processors