COMP SCI 537 Final: CS 537 UW Madison 09 Spring Final
Document Summary
The future of processors, operating systems, and you. Please put your name and student id on this page, and just your student id (but not your name) on every other page. So i can grade the exam anonymously, of course. This nal examines the operating system issues around a new technology advance: the multicore cpu. In fact, we will be looking at a series of questions about a future multicore chip with 1000 processors. Because it has 1000 processors, the designers have cleverly called it the kilochip or kchip for short. The processors on the kchip all share a single memory and i/o subsystem, and in this way the kchip is similar to current systems; there are just more processors. Because it is in the future, though, there is more of everything, including memory (terabytes) and a new type of long-term storage device (a new solid-state device called a isk ).
