AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores
Tell AMD what you might do with 48 cores and you could have your plans realized!
What would you do with a 48-core system? That's what AMD wants to know – and if you give them a particularly compelling answer, you could be the owner of one such system.
The AMD Server team is giving away the following prize worth $8,189 USD:
* Four new AMD Opteron processors Model 6174, 12-core (2.2 GHz)
* Tyan S8812 motherboard: the motherboard is a Tyan S8812 that features 4 processor sockets with the capacity for you to install up to 8 DIMMs per socket
* one copy of Windows Server 2008
And what might you have to do to bag such a prize? Submit your idea to AMD about what you would do with 48 cores by: Writing an essay (no more than 500 words); or creating a You Tube video (no longer than 3 minutes); or writing a blog (no more than 500 words).
AMD does give a tip that submitting a creation about playing World of Warcraft faster than anyone isn't going to help your cause. Instead, AMD urges you to think about what you can do to help society and others.
The contest runs until March 24 and is open to those in USA and Canada. Click here for the full details!
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Porn.
I would load 12 Battlefield BC2 instances and use Win7 , WinIcon+TAB to switch between them.
as a CS student this would be awesome for Crypto and Parallel computing
Surf the web.
porn, 48P? ridiculous.
darn. well looks like F@H it is!
Fold like a crazed gerbil!
They can go to hell with their contest. I can pay $9000 and use my new 48 core system as a heater.
I would watch all my games and apps designed for 1, 2, or 4 cores not use the other 44 cores.
What applications would support this?
Laugh at the core i7 975. :-)
I'd use all that CPU power to compress data in real time as it is writen to HDD/SSD in order to increase throughput!
Play Crysis
Wish I had a 30ghz single core CPU.
My essay was turned in yesterday in fact... lol
2 chicks at the same time, man.
porn, 48P? ridiculous.
Holodeck porn!
Running the PC 24/7 to help contribute to finding a cure for diseases or cancer would be great.
Re-encode my entire video collection ro h.264 and AAC, compress all the DVDs of meetings at my local Cable TV Studio in the same manner, and run folding@home
I'd contribute to the development of open source software/projects and help educate other people, I'd give people a chance to work/play with such a big monster.
And compile 10 kernels at the same time while playing crysis on max with linux through wine.
folding@home
running the PC 24/7 is more likely to CAUSE cancer than cure it
Calculate a way to pay my electric bill.
Calculate a way to pay my electric bill.
What would I do with 48 cores?
Nothing useful.
Wish I had a 30ghz single core CPU.
I always wonder why someone doesnt develop a single core but with all the cache and transistors of a quadcore (Not really sure a 30Ghz cpu is feasible, but a 3ghz with a looooot of power is).
Sure, it would be a single computational thread but 4 times faster than any other... Not too bad if you ask me.
I would sell it and would use the money to help pay for a group trip to Haiti to help build an orphanage and water treatment plant (the leading cause of Haitians dying is because of dirty water).
2 chicks at the same time, man.
"That's it? If you had 48 cores, you'd do two chicks at the same time?"
OMG AWESOME CONTEST!
Yeah, to all of you dreamers who think this is capable of playing Crysis (and whatnot), think again - this is NOT a setup for single-thread performance (BTW, MOST games on the market are single-thread, even in this day and age). This is a setup for multi-thread performance. So unless your workload can be parallelized to fully utilize 48 threads, you are pretty much out of luck with this one, and better stick with some entry-level or mid-range i5/i7 for a fraction of the price.
To be honest, I'd rather give a chance to GPGPU (now that's one massively parallelizing processing unit) than try using this. Granted that there are no other prerequisites or limitations in place, of course.
Make massive rainbow tables that can crack anything!!! That's really about it.
I would donate it to the Garrahan hospital (it's in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I live).
It's a children's hospital that among other things does important medical research and they could really use a powerful rig for simulations, DNA research, protein folding, etc...