Exam 5: Computer Systems Organization

MIMD parallelism is not a scalable architecture. _________________________

The normal mode of operation of a Von Neumann machine is sequential . _________________________

The data path is the three parts of the _______ together.

In a two-level memory hierarchy, when the computer needs a piece of information, it looks in cache memory first, then RAM.

The ____ of a disk is the time for the beginning of the desired sector to rotate under the read/write head.

What is cluster computing?

A cache is typically ____ times faster than RAM but possesses less storage capacity.

Other than clock speed, what is an accurate measure of machine speed?

In a direct access storage device, every unit of information has a unique ____________________.

To alert the computer that an input/output operation is done, a(n)____ is transmitted to the processor.

What is the most fundamental characteristic of the Von Neumann architecture?

The branch machine language instructions alter the normal _______ flow of control.

To solve the difficulty of scaling memory organization, memories are physically organized into a ____-dimensional organization.

The principle of locality states that when the computer uses something, it will probably use it again very soon.

If a computer has a maximum of 2 ^N memory cells, then each address field in a machine language instruction must be ____ bits wide to enable us to address every cell.

Describe at length what quantum computing is.

Draw an analogy between cache memory and a home refrigerator.

What is random access memory, and what are its three characteristics?

In a ____, the original contents of the memory cell are unchanged.

The Von Neumann bottleneck is the inability of the sequential one-instruction-at-a-time Von Neumann model computer to handle today's large-scale problems.