Practice Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data (mimd) (7.2.2) - Parallel Processing Architectures for AI

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Question 1.
What does MIMD stand for?
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Think about what each part of the acronym represents.
Question 2.
List one advantage of MIMD over SIMD.
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Consider the flexibility of handling tasks.
3Question 3.
What is a key feature of MIMD architectures?
- Single instruction for all data
- Different instructions on different data
- No parallelism
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Think about how it differs from SIMD.
4Question 4.
True or False: MIMD architectures can only execute one type of instruction at a time.
- True
- False
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Consider the meaning of 'Multiple Instructions' in the name.
Question 5.
Evaluate the implications of using MIMD in autonomous vehicles that perform simultaneous navigation and obstacle detection.
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What operations must an autonomous vehicle execute simultaneously?
Question 6.
Debate the scalability issues faced by MIMD architectures as AI complexity increases.
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What challenges arise when many tasks need to be managed?

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