Question 1
What are the main characteristics of an SMP, NUMA and Cluster system? Give their benefits.
Question 2
What is CPU execution time? How can it be determined?
Question 3
How can the performance of different computers be compared? Give your reasons for it.
Question 4
What is MFLOPS? What is its significance?
Question 5
What are benchmarks? What is its significance? List a few different benchmarks.
Question 6
List a few methods to improve latency and bandwidth.