What Would You Do With 48 Cores?
*** THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED ***
Well, you might get your chance to show us.
The AMD Server team is kicking March off with a new contest. We are seeking your best essays, videos, or blog posts documenting how you might use 48 cores. One winner will be selected and awarded with:
- 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
Approximate retail value of all prizes is $8,189 USD.
For those of you living under a rock – or working away in the depths of the data center – the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors are 8- and 12-core processors that feature an incredible four channels of DDR-3 memory. That’s 33% more channels than expected competing Intel products* and more than double the memory throughput of our existing products.** These are the first 8- and 12-core x86 processors in the market and you could be one of the first to have such a historic product in your hands.
We’re planning to introduce these processors this quarter and we want to make sure that you get your opportunity to showcase how great your ideas are. Tell us what you can do with 48 cores to make the world a better, more interesting place, delivering the top performance or optimizing power. Of course creativity will be awarded, so don’t be afraid to show the fun side of servers.
So how do you get your shot? It’s easy. Here are the simple rules:
- Submit your idea 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) and sending us your link; or
- Writing a blog (no more than 500 words) and sending us your link
Here’s a tip: playing World of Warcraft faster than anyone is probably not going to get you the good stuff. Think about what you can do to help society, to help others. That will give you an edge.
- Submit your entry and valid email address through the “What Would You Do With 48 Cores?” Contest entry form before Wednesday, March 24, 2010, @ at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
- Sit back and wait to see whether you have won. We’ll be announcing the winner on or before April 15th.
It’s really that easy. We’ll be reviewing all of the submissions and the team will choose the one that best exemplifies the spirit of 48 cores changing the world.
If you are wondering about the fine print, here are all of the official contest rules.
Good luck.
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/intel_westmere_ep_preview/
** Based on quad channel DDR3-1333 for AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor vs. dual channel DDR2-800 for Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Eligibility United States and Canada residents (excluding quebec), 18 years and older. Limit one (1) entry per person or e-mail address. See complete “WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH 48 CORES?” contest official rules for additional rules and details. Additional restrictions may apply, void where prohibited.
John Fruehe is the Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
POSTED IN: AMD Opteron
TAGS: 48 Cores, 6000 series, Magny Cours, Multicore, Opteron, Tyan
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Hi..!
I’m not a an IT guy, so I won’t know any specifics of database or amount of websites you can serve.
I’m a 3D artist and looking at this from an everyday mainstream point of view on how I would use it. I can imagine myself sitting back a couple of feet from the computer table w/ a lazy boy(sitting for the long haul, might as well as be comfortable as you can). Why? because on the table is a Eyefinity setup with a 3 by 2 monitor setup or a 4 by 3 if there is a possibility for two videocards. On my lap area is a one of those laptop tray setup with the keyboard, mouse and a wacom tablet(drinks and snacks optional).
What’s on the screen is the picture of pure productivity!
I would be running at least 3 instant of my favorite 3d software:
– one for particle simulations FX
– one for rendering batches of animations
– last one for doing some 3d model or animation.
- At least one image editor like photoshop for texturing or painting.
- A game editor like unity3d to check the final form of the game model, textures and animations.
- 2 or 3 movie player to see movements references for animation or for inspirations on compositions for painting.
- At least one to two instant messager to keep in touch with friends.
- A mp3 player to play “mood” music to keep motivations going.
- Several webpages for reference pictures, emails, information, and of course Facebook Farmville! haha.
- Several picture viewers for references of textures, people, creatures, nature, etc..
In general, I see people are usually impatience for results.. we want to do everything at once and with this 48 core setup I can see it happening. Its not that the cpu have to run at the fastest speed because we are not running JUST one application. Its more about running everything at once and with the eyefinity setup, you can see everything running at once. There’s is enough core, enough treads to see everything in action.. all at once.. multi-cores are not just for servers anymore.. just like orange juice is not just for breakfast anymore.. No one have to be impatience anymore.. for the first time, the human brain IS the limiting factor..
Happy Multitasking..!
I would do a little movio or breaks for some tv shows, but that this can be amazing, and showing the used technologya AMD, of course, I can do a lot of thing maybe work in some programas for a little enterprise, but I like the ideo of breaks or commercials for the tv.
Its easy: use it as additional heating for my office
No, got more useful ideas: 48cores demand for parallel exploitation of processing power and memory bandwidth.
* Faster and more realistic rendering: a few years ago one would have to build a cluster of multiple machines to achieve the same thoughput as an 48 core system. Still images could use rendering algorithms like raytracing, ambient light and multiple light sources to achieve unmatched realistic views of real world or imaginary phantasies. Or think of Avatar, the movie, done in realtime. Animation videos could be produced in way less time and superior quality as TV is shifting to high definition and 3D. Companies can affordably visualize business related data (nevertheless might be still in search for people to understand and analyze what they see).
* Multimedia format conversion. Transfer broadcasted or stored content for mobile personal use or own digital media to suit different playback devices like netbooks or touch-screen mobiles take lot of time with current processor capacity. With 48cores the transcode rates would skyrocket and allow these transformations to happen in less time.
* Information mining for your business: have 48cores mining your corporate network and internal website, build a frequently refreshed cache to allow faster retrieval for content and documents. Think of g**gle for your internal web.
* Data deduplication: corporate data very often is stored and maintained multiple times leading to exponential growth for storage requirements and data inconsistency over time. Use 48cores to search for and compare data found in email repositories, equal attachments, identify and link them to a unique copy. Do compression of the data stored and decompression on the fly. Do not forget to backup nevertheless.
* Numerical quantum physics and chemistry: ask those guys for need of processing power, they take whatever they can get e.g. Computational_physics or Computational_chemistry. They might find some useful medication faster and save a lot of lives.
Regards M
Sure hope your office is already warm because the power/thermals of our 12 core processors look a lot like our 6-core
I want holograms running around on my desk. I want them to report to me then go execute the task and when finished report back. This would be a great interface for games and sys admin task such as defranging hard drives.
Would it not be way cool to have your whole room turn into an interactive video game. 48 cores and tons of ram creating a space filled with warlords and nymphs.
I feel the need for speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!