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High Performance Computing (HPC) important questionsMost repeated in SPPU papers

These 36 questions appeared in more than one SPPU High Performance Computing paper we have: 8 papers, from Feb 2023 to Nov 2025. The most-asked come first. Each one links to the papers it was asked in.

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Repeated questions

Endsem questions (28)

  1. 4×asked

    Explain Scatter and Gather operations.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  2. 3×asked

    Explain circular shift operation?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  3. 3×asked

    Explain odd- even transportation on bubble sort using parallel formulation.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·May 2023

  4. 3×asked

    Explain parallel Matrix —Matrix multiplication algorithm with example?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  5. 3×asked

    What are the issues in sorting on parallel computers with example?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  6. 3×asked

    What is granularity? What are effects of granularity on performance of parallel systems?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2023

  7. 3×asked

    Enlist performance Metrics for Parallel Systems and explain any two. 2

    Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  8. 3×asked

    Explain how non-blocking communication is finalised.

    Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  9. 2×asked

    Describe processing flow of CUDA-C program with diagram.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  10. 2×asked

    Explain communication strategies for parallel BFS.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  11. 2×asked

    Explain cost analysis of all to all broadcast operation.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2024

  12. 2×asked

    Explain performance matrices of parallel systems. 2

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  13. 2×asked

    Explain sources of overhead in parallel program.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  14. 2×asked

    Explain the following terms in CUDA: device, host, device code, Kernel

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  15. 2×asked

    Explain with example and algorithm all-to all broadcast on 3 * 3 mesh

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  16. 2×asked

    What is CUDA? Explain different programming languages support in CUDA. Discuss any three applications of CUDA.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  17. 2×asked

    What is Kubernets? Explain its features and applications.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  18. 2×asked

    What is one-to-all broadcast? Explain it with the help of algorithm for one-to-all broadcast on hypercube. Comment on cost calculation.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2024

  19. 2×asked

    Write a short note on prefix-sum operation.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  20. 2×asked

    Write short notes on : i) Parallel Merge Sort ii) GPU Applications

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  21. 2×asked

    Explain All-to-One Broadcast and Reduction on a ring.

    May 2025 ·Nov 2024

  22. 2×asked

    Explain Distributed Computing for Document Classification. 

    May 2025 ·Nov 2024

  23. 2×asked

    Explain prefix-sum operation for an eight-node hypercube.

    May 2025 ·Nov 2024

  24. 2×asked

    Write a note on minimum and cost optimal execution time.

    May 2025 ·May 2023

  25. 2×asked

    Explain processing flow of CUDA along with CUDA C functions used.

    Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  26. 2×asked

    Explain cuda memory model in brief.

    May 2024 ·May 2023

  27. 2×asked

    Explain Parallel Depth First Search algorithm in detail.

    May 2024 ·May 2023

  28. 2×asked

    Explain various sources of overhead in parallel systems.

    May 2024 ·May 2023

Insem questions (8)

  1. 3×asked

    Explain any three-decomposition technique with example.

    Mar 2025 ·Mar 2024 ·Feb 2023

  2. 2×asked

    Explain classification of Dynamic mapping techniques.

    Mar 2025 ·Feb 2023

  3. 2×asked

    Explain SIMD, MIMD and SIMT architectures.

    Mar 2025 ·Feb 2023

  4. 2×asked

    What are characteristics of task and interaction? 2

    Mar 2025 ·Mar 2024

  5. 2×asked

    What are the application of parallel computing?

    Mar 2025 ·Feb 2023

  6. 2×asked

    Describe mapping technique for load balancing?

    Mar 2024 ·Feb 2023

  7. 2×asked

    Explain in details parallel algorithm models?

    Mar 2024 ·Feb 2023

  8. 2×asked

    Explain the impact of Memory Latency & Memory Bandwidth on system performance?

    Mar 2024 ·Feb 2023

Questions count as repeated when their wording matches closely across papers. Numericals that depend on a figure are left out, since the figure changes from paper to paper.