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, AMD Opteron 6000 Series, Magny Cours, multi-core processors, Tyan
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Nice!
I’ll sweeten the pot with 15 copies of Ubuntu or Fedora for the winner, and unlimited downloads for all, if you want.
I will run the unix top command, press ’1′ key and stare at the screen, thinking what an amazing amount of computation power can 2 cm square can provide.
I have a pretty good idea what to do with a 48-core machine. The *real* question is how much RAM I can get with it.
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This is a great step to bring AMD to masses
Shame that i can’t take part in it, as i’m not a US resident. I really want AMD to do well and i’ll be downright sad to give any business to Intel.
I just wanted to leave this for you to see. Perhaps, you chaps could fix this
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20100303151423_Intel_Plans_to_Offer_Inexpensive_Microprocessors_with_Unlocked_Multiplier.html
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We cannot begin to express how excited we were when we read this blog post – we run a distributed search engine project, and have crawled over 200 billion web pages. We have been supporters of the multicore revolution which was popularised by AMD
since we bought our first AMD X2 3800 in 2005.
There we were, excitedly discussing how we could use this prize to visualise our trillion url database ( see http://www.majesticseo.com/search.php?q=amd.com
), when we noticed the little text at the bottom of the page saying “US residents only”. John, we were crushed!
Why were we so excited? Well, one box packing 48 cores has more power than 6 dual quad core servers – without some of the overheads and bottlenecks that have become all too familiar to us.
So John, can you help us – can you open up the competition to your fans across the water?
There are legal and tax reasons that prevent this from being worldwide. Every country has different contest laws and tax laws, so trying to put something together with an ~$8K USD value makes it very difficult to get approved. Sorry.
Thankyou for a very entertaining and enlightening piece. It definitly opened my eyes to allot of things I had not thought of before.
What would I do with 48 cores?
Write some of the games I always wanted to but couldn’t be cause what I have got takes 4 hours to compile, and its not even 1/16th done.
Play a game like Crysis with everything at high and have it look good. I know most of it is from the GPU but some of it is still on the CPU’s back.