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.
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TAGS: 48 Cores, AMD Opteron 6000 Series, Magny Cours, multi-core processors, Tyan
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Great contest! Will the winning essay, blog or video be posted to see what cool idea wins? And how about like the 10 ten ideas? I’d really like to see how people’s imaginations worked on this!
Yes, the winner will be posted. The person on my team responsible for managing the contest has a huge job ahead of her. She’s gone through about 500 entries so far. She’ll have a blog this week (hopefully) that will highlight some of the trends. Let’s just say that there are a few pretty common threads out there.
HI!
I m Run Crysis 2 >>> HQ
48 Core + HD5980
Surely you could make an exception to allow a student from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) to enter the Comp? Some of our Control Engineering labs still run Windows NT (but that’s mainly due to software compatibility reasons). You can send the stuff to the Electrical Engineering Department, I’m sure they’ll find a use for it!
It’s all about laws and taxes, I don’t write the rules. Because you are talking about >$8k_USD things get really complicated on our end.
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48 cores? We have been shipping servers that have 48 cores since June (8 sockets x 6 cores). With 4 sockets by 12 cores, you’ll really be able to scale down the power demands and the cost, while the performance will scale up even more from there.
These will be used for database, HPC/technical, web/cloud, java, business apps (SAP, CRM, ERP, etc.) and more.
As for putting 2 die in a single package, that has been done for a while. The trick with ours is that the die are interconnected so they scale well. And 1.7GHz will be the low end of the stack, not the top.
It should be an exciting time when these launch.
I would love 48 cores, I would do Folding@Home and build a super COMPUTER! and attempt to make a robot!!!! and or buy 2 5990′s or 4 if its possibe
48 cores is a hard one, It would be so POWERFUL!
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I know it is not easy to explain that what 48 core in a single processor can do but I known some thing it will definitely bring revolutionary change in user experience of using computers. Because what Intel is offering is max 6 cores in Core i7
Extreme Edition Gulftown processor.
Wow! This is incredible! Its memory handling capability would make my photo/video editing speed Super-Spaceshuttle-Smack! I believe, many people like me would be excited about its launch. My clients will be so much happier with the speed at which I will be able to work on.
Don’t you think your claim of having 33% more memory channels is a bit decptive? You are comparing your 12 core latest proc with a year old 4 core Intel proc which would work on a 2P system only?
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to compare it against the Intel 8 core coming up at the end of this month?
Just thought honestey is well appreciated.. It builds credibility with us, consumers!
Actually our 2P and 4P systems both will have 4 channels of memory. Intel just launched a brand new 2P system and that only has 3 channels of memory.
Their 4P system will allegedly have 4 channels of memory, but it will not support the higher speed 1333MHz memory, only the slower 1066 from all of the presentations they have been giving on it. But, then again, that product was supposed to launch in Q4 of last year, so there really is no telling what it will finally be when it gets here.