The graphics-intensive video game Civilization VII runs in 3…

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The grаphics-intensive videо gаme Civilizаtiоn VII runs in 300 secоnds on a gaming PC. The rendering pipeline accounts for 210 seconds of the total time. How much does the rendering portion need to be improved to achieve a 4x overall speedup? If the improvement cannot be accomplished, specify why that's the case. Note: you do not need to know anything about video games to answer this question.

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Grаph аlgоrithms аre nоtоrious for giving poor performance when running in parallel on a multicore or a memory-distributed architecture. A scientist working in the field of computational chemistry has encountered such an undirected graph G that has billion vertices, and the maximum degree for any vertex is 2. The scientists want to find a way from vertex xto vertex y within that graph; where vertex x and y can be any of the vertices of the graph G. Can you think of a data structure that can be used to represent the graph for processing? Why do you think it is a good idea to represent the graph in this way? Can you think of other ways? Discuss. No matter what the scientist did with his graph she was not able to get good parallel performance: Do you think she can get good performance on a serial machine provided that all the datasets, graph structures, data structures, are the same? If yes, why? If not, why not? Another scientist thinks that she is getting poor performance due to irregular memory access on the graph algorithm. Do you agree? If yes, illustrate with an example. If not, give a reason.