Practice - Memory Architecture and Data Movement
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Practice Questions
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What is shared memory?
💡 Hint: Think about how memory access works in a multi-core processor.
What is distributed memory?
💡 Hint: Consider systems where each CPU has its memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of memory architecture allows all processors to access a common area?
💡 Hint: Think about scenarios with multi-core processors.
True or False: Distributed memory systems can experience contention issues.
💡 Hint: Remember how distributed systems work.
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Challenge Problems
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Considering a high-performance AI application, how could you structure your architecture to optimize both access speed and communication overhead? Design both a shared memory and distributed memory model and explain the trade-offs.
💡 Hint: Think about how latency and contention affect performance.
Evaluate a scenario where using shared memory might result in bottlenecks. Discuss how you would redesign the system using distributed memory for better performance.
💡 Hint: Consider heavy-load scenarios where too many access requests are made to the memory.
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