Assignment Week 11
1. What is the primary goal of profiling MPI applications?
A. To reduce code size
B. To identify performance bottlenecks
C. To minimize compilation time
D. To debug code execution
Answer: To identify performance bottlenecks
2. What can excessive communication overhead in MPI lead to?
A. Improved data processing
B. Reduced latency
C. Decreased scalability
D. Faster execution time
Answer: Decreased scalability
3. When profiling MPI applications, what does "load imbalance" refer to?
A. Unequal memory usage between processes
B. Unequal distribution of computational tasks
C. Excessive synchronization barriers
D. Uneven communication bandwidth
Answer: Unequal distribution of computational tasks
4. In MPI profiling, what is latency defined as?
A. Time taken to compute numerical operations
B. Time taken for a message to travel from one process to another
C. Time taken to allocate memory
D. Time taken to execute parallel threads
Answer: Time taken for a message to travel from one process to another
5. What is the primary purpose of debugging MPI applications?
A. To optimize memory usage
B. To find and fix errors
C. To improve graphics rendering
D. To increase bandwidth
Answer: To find and fix errors
6. How can memory leaks in MPI applications be detected?
A. Using MPI_Finalize
B. Using memory debugging tools like Valgrind
C. Using MPI_Comm_free
D. Using MPI_Gather
Answer: Using memory debugging tools like Valgrind
7. How do numerical methods support high-performance computing?
A. By reducing memory hardware requirements
B. By providing efficient algorithms for large-scale computations
C. By reducing floating-point operations entirely
D. By simplifying software development
Answer: By providing efficient algorithms for large-scale computations
8. What is the primary use of linear algebra libraries?
A. Data visualization
B. Perform mathematical operations on matrices and vectors efficiently
C. Debugging programs
D. Web development
Answer: Perform mathematical operations on matrices and vectors efficiently
9. What is the primary purpose of BLAS?
A. Solve differential equations
B. Provide basic operations for linear algebra
C. Perform data compression
D. Visualize high-dimensional datasets
Answer: Provide basic operations for linear algebra
10.What is the role of Thrust in linear algebra?
A. It offers parallel algorithms and data structures for linear algebra on GPUs
B. It provides symbolic computation capabilities for dense matrices
C. It automates visualization of linear transformations
D. It is a Python library for large matrices
Answer: It offers parallel algorithms and data structures for linear algebra on GPUs
11.What is the primary purpose of SLURM?
A. Data visualization
B. Job scheduling and resource management in HPC clusters
C. Debugging parallel programs
D. File system management
Answer: Job scheduling and resource management in HPC clusters
12.Which SLURM command is used to submit a batch job?
A. squeue
B. sbatch
C. srun
D. scancel
Answer: sbatch
13.What is the role of the squeue command in SLURM?
A. Submit a job
B. Cancel a job
C. Display the status of jobs in the queue
D. Allocate resources for a job
Answer: Display the status of jobs in the queue
14.What is the main purpose of scientific visualization?
A. Compress large datasets
B. Represent data graphically for analysis and understanding
C. Perform statistical calculations
D. Debug algorithms
Answer: Represent data graphically for analysis and understanding
15.Which software is widely used for 3D scientific visualization?
A. Microsoft Excel
B. Blender
C. ParaView
D. Notepad++
Answer: ParaView
