Seat No: ______________ Enrollment No: ____________________

PARUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
B.Tech., Winter 2018 - 19 Examination
Semester: 7 Date: 28/11/2018
Subject Code: 03105402 Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Subject Name: Parallel and Distributed Computing Total Marks: 60
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
4. Start new question on new page.

Q.1 Objective Type Questions – (15)

1. The processors are either loosely coupled with distributed memory or tightly coupled
with centralized shared memory in the paradigm
1.Cloud computing 2.Distributed computing
3.Centralized computing 4.Parallel computing
2. Processes on the remote systems are identified by
1. host ID 2. host name and identifier
3. identifier 4. process ID
3. What is cloud computing replacing?
1. Corporate Data Center 2. Expensive Personal Computer hardware
3. Expensive Software upgrades 4. All of the above
4. Inter-process communication takes place via
1. Shared memory 2. Message passing
3. Centralized memory 4. Both A and B
5. An instruction to provide small delay in program
1. LDA 2. BEA
3. NOP 4. None of the above
6. _______________________________ implies that the user need not be aware whether
the resource is in volatile memory or on the disk.
7. A calls whose caller has expired due to node crash is known as___________________

8. ________________ allows a single thread to lock Mutex more than one time
9. Match the provider with cloud based service.
1. Amazon A. Azure
2. IBM B. Elastic Compute Cloud
3. EMC C. Decho
4. Microsoft D. Cloudburst
10. Workstation server model performs better in case of high performance interactive
application.-TRUE/FALSE
11. Shared Memory has a problem of Lack of scalability.-- TRUE/FALSE
12.Define : False Sharing
13.Define : DSM
14. Give full form of POSIX.

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 15. Calculate the Access time of the program whose size is n, the available cache of 128kb
on single processor the hit rate of the cache is 80 % and latency to access the cache is
5ms and latency of accessing secondary memory is 150ms .Find out access time of
program.
Q.2 Answer the following questions. (Attempt any three) (15)
A) Draw and Explain Distributed Computing Model.
B) Discuss Performance metric of parallel system in detail.
C) Explain Java RMI with Example.
D) Explain architecture of Distributed Shared Memory.
Q.3 A) Explain message passing and shared-address-space computers with neat sketches. Also (07)
state the differences between these two computers.
B) Explain about RPC in detail and also explain normal procedure call v/s remote (08)
Procedure call.
OR
B) Elaborate how Synchronization is done in IPC. (08)
Q.4 A) Differentiate Consistency and coherency in parallel system? Explain Cache coherency (07)
protocol in detail
OR
A) Explain Parallel Reduction technique. (07)
B) What is hypervisor and Virtualization? Compare Full virtualization with Para (08)
virtualization

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