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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“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*”
Yep, a better comparison would to be the Nehalem-EX, which is quad-socket, 8 core and four channels too.
Actually you can compare to both since our product will be available in both 2P and 4P configurations, so it competes with BOTH Westmere and Beckton. Considering the fact that Westmere is in the 2P space, which is ~75% of the market (compared to the ~4-5% of the 4P space that Beckton is in), the more logical comparison is Westmere.
I’ll gladly compare my memory channels to Beckton all day long. Both have 4, but Beckton only supports up to 1066MHz memory, not the 1333MHz that we support, and Beckton uses memory buffers on each channel, which makes motherboards more expensive, harder to route, and increases power consumption. In my opinion it is a very bad choice in memory configuration. I thought Intel learned their lesson with the fully buffered DIMM fiasco but apparently they have simply moved the problem from the DIMM module on to the board.
If i had 48 cores, I’d try to build a virtual gaming system, where a virtual machine provides a bunch of games which could be played by instancing a new vm. i guess that allready exists as cloud gaming and is in progress, but it’s still interesting.
I would use it to create a large 3D holograms for commercial use. Such power combining with DLP technology could give excellent results for less price.
I re-draw the avatar movie:)
avatar movie again, can I withdraw) will increase the number of polygon rendering does not do standby standby rendar Biter now.
If I have 48 core would have a lot of games and lots of programs and also I had better speed and better computer
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On this page, the contest states it is open to US and Canadian residents (except Quebec). On the entry for it says US only. Could you please clarify?
Thanks
Dave
US and Canada, minus Quebec.