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91324 CSC 2060N -- Computer Organization -- Fall 2012
Online Course
Quiz 9


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This is the weekly quiz for 27 November 2012 for the CSC 2060 course. Please do this quiz after you have completed the rest of assignment 9. It should take between one half hour and 2 1/2 hours to complete if you are well prepared, longer if not.

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  1. By now you are supposed to have notes in your blog about the first 28 of Prof. Raman's lectures. Give the URLs for your blog entries for lectures 26, 27 and 28. No extra credit, but you really do have to do it.

  2. Describe your proposed porfolio project in detail and what progress you have made in the past week, what problems you are encountering, and your projected date for completion.

  3. Explain on-chip instruction-level parallelism with a detailed example.

  4. Explain the role of coprocessors giving a detailed example.

  5. Explain the handling of shared memory in a multicomputer with a detailed example of two threads cooperating in access to the same variable in shared memory to that each can reliably increment that variable.

  6. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 26th lecture. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 27th lecture. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 28th lecture.

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Updated 25 November 2012.