Exam 10: The Tower of Babel

Using a single processor, finding the largest of N numbers takes ____ time.

Procedural languages differ in the details of assigning a new value to a variable, in the mechanisms the language provides for directing the flow of control through conditional and looping statements, and in the statement forms that control input and output.

Today ____ is still strong in the transportation industry (aircraft, helicopters, subway systems, European high-speed train control systems) and in safety monitoring systems at nuclear reactors, as well as in financial and communication systems.

Describe the two models of parallel architectures.

Patterned after the human brain, ____ can involve massive interconnections of many extremely simple devices.

The use of parallelism always reduces processing time because subtasks are being executed concurrently.

Code filled with GO TO statements that send the flow of control all over the place is known as "____."

____ source code is freely available and can be used, distributed, or modified by anyone.

With what is SQL designed to be used?

The task of finding the largest number in a list can be solved in a MIMD parallel fashion using the ____ model.