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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BE - SEMESTER-VIII (OLD) EXAMINATION - SUMMER 2019

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Subject Code: 180702 Date: 09/05/2019
Subject Name: Parallel Processing
Time: 10:30 AM TO 01:00 PM Total Marks: 70

Instructions:

1. Attempt all questions.

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2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q.1 (a) Enlist and discuss different parallel algorithm models in detail. 07
(b) Explain pipelining and superscalar execution with suitable example. 07

Q.2 (a) Enlist various decomposition techniques. Explain data decomposition with suitable example. 07

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(b) Explain All-to-All Broadcast and All-to-All Reduction on eight node hypercube. 07

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(b) Explain scatter and gather communication operation with example. 07

Q.3 (a) Explain Cannon’s algorithm for matrix multiplication. 07
(b) Enlist various performance metrics for parallel systems. Explain Speedup, Efficiency and total parallel overhead in brief. 07

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Q.3 (a) With respect to Dense Matrix Algorithms, draw and explain Matrix-Vector Multiplication with Row wise 1-D partitioning 07
(b) Discuss buffered non-blocking and non-buffered non-blocking send/receive message passing operations with neat sketches. 07

Q.4 (a) Briefly explain different synchronization primitives available in Pthread. Explain the following mutex (normal, recursive and’error check) in context to Pthread 07
(b) Write the functionality of the following MPI primitives or routines: 07

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i. MPI Init
ii. MPI Scan
iii. MPI_Reduce

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Q.4 (a) Explain following functions and its arguments with respect to Pthreads API. 07

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i. pthread_create()
ii. pthread_join()

(b) Explain following MPI routines with arguments. 07
i. MPI Sendrecv
ii. MPI Send

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iii. MPI Recv

Q.5 (a) Explain Dijkstra's Algorithm for Single-Source Shortest Paths. 07
(b) Explain Bitonic sort with example. 07

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Q.5 (a) Discuss Prim's Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Tree. 07

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(b) Briefly explain parallel version of Quick sort algorithm for shared address space system. 07

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