Exam #3 Review Part 3

Question 1

SISD, SIMD, MIMD

Answer 1

SISD(Single Instruction Stream,Single Data Stream)
-A Uniprocessor

SIMD(Single Instruction Stream, Multiple Data Stream)
-The same instruction is applied to many data streams, as in a vector processor.

MIMD(Multiple instruction stream, Multiple data stream)
-A Multiprocessor

Question 2

Hardware Multithreading

Answer 2

Increasing utilization of a processor by switching to another thread when one thread is stalled.