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The disadvantage of the software poll is that it is time consuming.
A __________ is a circular platter constructed of nonmagnetic material, called the
substrate, coated with a magnetizable material.
A key characteristic of a bus is that it is not a shared transmission medium.
The address of the next instruction to be fetched must be a real address, not a virtual
address.
Processors are so inexpensive that we now have microprocessors we throw away.
The data-parallel code to be run on the GPU is called a ___________ .
A microprogram is midway between hardware and software.
__________ is when the result is put back into the floating-point format and the extra
bits must be eliminated in such a way as to produce a result that is close to the exact
result.
The __________ Mean gives consistent results regardless of which system is used as a
reference.
A nibble is a grouping of four decimal digits.
The GPU is most efficient when it is processing as many warps as possible to keep the
CUDA cores maximally utilized.
To implement a control unit as an interconnection of basic logic elements is a very
simple task.
A ________ is a group of interconnected, whole computers working together as a
unified computing resource that can create the illusion of being one machine.
Because the GPU and the CPU are designed and optimized for two significantly
different types of applications, their architectures differ significantly.
A self-contained computer program that is incorporated into a larger program is a
__________.
Pipelining is a means of introducing parallelism into the essentially sequential nature of
a machine-instruction program.
__________ enables a processor to work simultaneously on multiple instructions by
performing a different phase for each of the multiple instructions at the same time.
A __________ failure is a permanent physical defect so that the memory cell or cells
affected cannot reliably store data but become stuck at 0 or 1 or switch erratically
between 0 and 1.
