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standard message-passing benchmark suite, the NAS Parallel Benchmarks II [NPB2]
in Chapter 7.) We are now on a firm footing to proceed to core architecture and
design.
EXERCISES
1 a. You are to perform a study evaluating a new feature proposed for the commu-
nication architecture of a cache-coherent machine. Your manager tells you
that you may use no more than three parallel programs for the evaluation.
Even though this goes against your better judgment, you have to agree. Of the
seven parallel programs (excluding the multiprogrammed workload) we have
examined in this chapter and in Chapter 3, which three would you choose