CompArch Ch. 19 Review

The __________ is designed specifically to be optimized for fast three-dimensional (3D) graphics rendering and video processing.
A. CPU
B. GPU
C. CU
D. ALU

In embedded systems the GPU is composed of only a single-digit number of cores, and are typically combined with a number of conventional cores, referred to as _________.
A. arithmetic logic units
B. control units
C. central processing units
D. graphic processing units

CUDA was created by __________ .
A. Amdahl
B. NVIDIA
C. the U.S. Government
D. Herbert Moore

An instance of the kernel on the GPU is a ___________ .
A. thread
B. warp
C. grid
D. block

A group of threads assigned to a particular SM is a __________ .
A. block
B. grid
C. unit
D. kernel

The parallel code in the form of a function to be run on GPU is the ________ .
A. grid
B. thread
C. kernel
D. none of the above

The dual warp scheduler will break up each thread block it is processing into _______ .
A. kernels
B. warps
C. grids
D. all of the above

To enhance performance, a technique known as __________ is used for the shared L3 data cache.
A. cache banking
B. thread blocking
C. streaming
D. warping

In 2006 NVIDIA facilitated the use of its new GPGPU language, ________ .
A. GPU/GP
B. SIMD
C. CUDA
D. NVIDIA C

___________ is a GPU processing technology.
A. Fermi
B. Kepler
C. Maxwell
D. All of the above

A _________ is a bundle of 32 threads that start at the same starting address and their thread IDs are consecutive.
A. warp
B. grid
C. block
D. grouping

__________ are caused by limited SFUs, double-precision multiplication, and branching.
A. Structural hazards
B. RAW data hazards
C. Vertical hazards
D. Latency hazards

The _________ performs transcendental operations, such as cosine, sine, reciprocal, and square root, in a single clock cycle.
A. SM
B. SIMD
C. SFU
D. FMA

The EU can issue up to ________ different instructions simultaneously from different threads.
A. four
B. five
C. six
D. seven

A subslice includes a unit called the _________, which is used for sampling texture and image surfaces.
A. stride
B. sampler
C. EU
D. floating-point