8.3.3 - Data-Level Parallelism (DLP)
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Practice Questions
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What does DLP stand for?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when multiple operations are performed on data.
Give an example of where DLP can be beneficial.
💡 Hint: Think of applications that handle large datasets.
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What does DLP stand for?
💡 Hint: Focus on the concept of executing the same operation on many data points.
Is SIMD related to DLP?
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions are executed in parallel.
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Challenge Problems
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You are designing a new algorithm for processing big data sets. How would you incorporate DLP to improve performance?
💡 Hint: Consider how breaking data into smaller segments can lead to concurrent processes.
Analyze a given task constraint: A data processing task requires operations that cannot be parallelized. What implications does this have for using DLP?
💡 Hint: Think about how tasks can affect one another in a sequence.
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