Find in the text synonyms to the following words

harm origin

find out gather

assist widen

cause manufacture

method flow

placed needed

nevertheless considerably

Match the antonyms in two columns.

external negligible

create delicate

damage push

add shorten

significant accelerate

rough powerful

pull subtract

prolong destroy

slow down internal

weak protect

3. Match the words with their definitions.

collide highest degree.

extend make less or smaller.

overcome take place; happen.

extreme stop or hinder.

reduce lead or cause; bring about.

occur state of disorder, confusion, dirt.

induce meet and strike.

prevent make longer; enlarge.

mess get the better of; be too strong for.

Form as many nouns as possible with the suffixes given below.

~ ment ~ ity ~ ~ tion ~ izm

~ ation ~ ship ~ ist ~ y

Make up sentences with the expressions given below.

turn to have an effect on

responsible for shield from

feed into prevent from

refer to

UNIT 12

Read and translate the text, reproduce it orally.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced the world's fastest commodity microprocessor, the UltraSPARC T2, as the cornerstone of its merchant portfolio of microelectronics. Available for sale separate from Sun's own systems, this new processor is the industry's first volume processor with eight cores and eight threads per core.

Formerly known as the "Niagara 2" project, the UltraSPARC T2's world-record performance raises the bar on commodity processors while boasting tshe industry's highest energy efficiency per thread. With each thread capable of running its own operating system, the chip delivers a whopping 64-way system on a single chip. Sun will provide the UltraSPARC T2

processor design to the free and open source community via the GPL license. "The market for commodity silicon and the devices they power is well into the tens of billions of dollars," said David Yen, executive vice president of Microelectronics for Sun. "The UltraSPARC T2 processor also makes possible a new breed of compact, power-efficient, highly integrated devices-going beyond servers to routers, switches, network devices, medical imaging, industrial printing and more. With UltraSPARC T2 technology, we can bring the speed and scalability of chip multithreading into much wider use-and provide welcome alternatives to companies that want commodity economics without commodity performance."

"We're at a historic point in computing, moving away from sequential processing to multicore designs," said Professor Dave Patterson, Pardee Chair of Computer Science for the University of California at Berkeley. "Hence, we need to invent new ways to evaluate these new parallel systems. Our initial experiments suggest that Niagara 2 has the highest performance, is the most power efficient and is the most 'software friendly' of the processors we've tested." The UltraSPARC T2 is the industry's first processor to bring together the key functions of multiple systems-virtualization, processing, networking, security, floating point units and accelerated memory access. Integrating these elements on a single piece of silicon reduces cost and increases performance, reliability and energy efficiency-making it the superior choice for a diversity of workloads, from networking equipment to high-performance computing or storage devices. As a general-purpose processor, the UltraSPARC T2 also provides support assively threaded, open source Solaris operating system, and other real-time operating systems, as well as future versions of Ubuntu Linux, bringing a massive community of developers and productivity to the growing market.

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