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AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores

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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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    fleming21 , March 5, 2010 7:47 PM
    Laugh at the core i7 975. :-)
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    mavroxur , March 5, 2010 7:52 PM
    2 chicks at the same time, man.
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    Korkwin , March 5, 2010 8:18 PM
    Calculate a way to pay my electric bill.
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  • 32 Hide
    visa , March 5, 2010 7:37 PM
    Porn.
  • 21 Hide
    mindless728 , March 5, 2010 7:42 PM
    as a CS student this would be awesome for Crypto and Parallel computing
  • 6 Hide
    tayb , March 5, 2010 7:43 PM
    Surf the web.
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    mianmian , March 5, 2010 7:43 PM
    porn, 48P? ridiculous.
  • 18 Hide
    warmon6 , March 5, 2010 7:44 PM
    Quote:
    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.


    darn. well looks like F@H it is!
  • 18 Hide
    mattshwink1 , March 5, 2010 7:44 PM
    Fold like a crazed gerbil!
  • 29 Hide
    tethoma , March 5, 2010 7:45 PM
    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?
  • 47 Hide
    fleming21 , March 5, 2010 7:47 PM
    Laugh at the core i7 975. :-)
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    dkcrogue , March 5, 2010 7:48 PM
    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!
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    Anonymous , March 5, 2010 7:49 PM
    Play Crysis
  • 23 Hide
    mrddr6 , March 5, 2010 7:50 PM
    Wish I had a 30ghz single core CPU.
  • 3 Hide
    reddozen , March 5, 2010 7:51 PM
    My essay was turned in yesterday in fact... lol
  • 39 Hide
    mavroxur , March 5, 2010 7:52 PM
    2 chicks at the same time, man.
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    maestintaolius , March 5, 2010 7:53 PM
    mianmianporn, 48P? ridiculous.

    Holodeck porn!
  • 18 Hide
    jrharbort , March 5, 2010 7:58 PM
    Running the PC 24/7 to help contribute to finding a cure for diseases or cancer would be great.
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    ravewulf , March 5, 2010 8:03 PM
    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
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    nevertell , March 5, 2010 8:05 PM
    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.
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    brett1042002 , March 5, 2010 8:13 PM
    folding@home
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