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A medical imaging manufacturer builds a workstation containing both a CPU and a GPU, which share the work of reconstructing a scan.
(a) how the two processors divide the work.
(b) two architectural differences between a CPU and a GPU that make this division sensible.
A museum assigns every artefact in its collection a catalogue number stored as a three-digit hexadecimal value. The artefact currently on display has the catalogue number 2F9. [7 marks]
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(c) one cost of moving work to the GPU.
A wildlife camera is powered by a battery and must operate unattended for a year. the use of interrupt handling rather than polling in this device.
A film archive's restoration server runs two processes. The first holds the scanner and requests the tape drive; the second holds the tape drive and requests the scanner.
(a) the situation that has arisen.
(b) why neither process can continue.
(c) one strategy the operating system could use to prevent this.
A trading platform requires the lowest possible latency on every transaction. why a compiled language is chosen for this application.
