large scale systems

Question 1

Dennard scaling

Answer 1

transistors get smaller, but their power density remains the same

Question 2

3Vs challenge

Answer 2

volume = too much data
velocity = data arrives too fast/results needed quickly
variety = workloads are different, many resources unused

Question 3

distribution

Answer 3

parallel computing + communication

Question 4

3vs in pipelining

Answer 4

volume, velocity: speed increase, however limited by number of stages
variety: not very diverse

Question 5

3vs in superscalar

Answer 5

volume, velocity: can’t increase pipeline stages or parallel functional units by much
variety: some diversity, but not high

Question 6

parallelism

Answer 6

multiple CPU cores, each with multiple functional units