Mumbai University > Electronics Engineering > Sem6 > Computer Organization

Marks: 5M

Year: June 2015, Dec 2015

1) To increase system performance, a traditional way is to use multiple processor that can execute in parallel to support a given workload.

2) The two most common multiple processor organizations are symmetric multiple processor (SMP’s) cluster and non-uniform memory Access (NUMA).

3) SMP consists of multiple similar processors within the computer, interconnected by bus or some sort of switching management.

4) Clusters is a group of interconnected, whole computers working together as a unified computing resource that can create the illusion of being one machine.

5) NUMA system is shared memory multiprocessor in which the access time from a given processor to word in memory varies with the location of memory word.