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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Having built many desk top computers ( I am an Accountant of 71 years) for my family and friends
all with AMD processors.
I would build myself a top of the range computer
just for my use, but also demonstrate what a marvelous computer I could build for anyone with an AMD processor to suit their computing needs for the future.
What a great opportunity to build such a box with all
the GPU’s , fast memory, sound cards and so on.
Colin.
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I would use the Cores CPU to build one heck of a Kick Ass of a gaming machine and tromp all over the other top gamers. What fun and I would have Ego Manna.
I currently use an AMD FX Althon FX 55 CPU 5 years old and I could sure use a new gaming PC. As you see I am on Social Security Disability and cannot afford to build a new gaming PC. As you see I am an avid gamer. Look out BF2 with 48 AMD Cores.
Love to game.
Regards.
If I have 48 core, be very happy
A 48 core CPU is a really sweet idea. I would use it for 3-D rendering and intense graphic software aplications. Audio programs would be really sweet as well. The main thing behind this would be 3-D rendering in real time. Just think how sweet it would be to make all those 3-D animations in real time instead of letting the computer do math calculations for 20 to 30 hours instead to acquire a 3 minute film. All that power is really nice!!!
I would build the first version of Multivac and have figure out how to reverse entropy.
With 48 cores, I would finally have a better computer than my wife.
fairly i have no idea. for certain what i would like to do is to provide a special kind of PSU, UPS and SSD. some kind of hypervisor solution should be in place from VMware for sure, to be continued …
To builld a HD 3D video machine which can display 4 HD 3D video at the same time and then publish to the cloud.
I’m a customer engineer for the world’s leading computer manufacturer. (Think two letters beginning with H). Although I’d like to compete for the prize, I’m prohibited by company policy. Anyway, here’s my personal opinion:
Blade computers will replace standard servers. They take one-fourth to one-half of the space, and about 50% of the power. Data center space is at a premium level, so companies need to evalute how much their data center real estate and power is costing them, not to mention (or also) how soon they will run out of space with their current track of standard servers.
We are coming into the age of “virtual” servers. Our 10U blade enclosures contain up to 16 blade servers. Each blade can have up to 64 Gigabytes or more of RAM, and if each “logical processor” (AMD is here saying 48 cores per blade, 4 socket x 12 cores), then you can have at least 8 “virtual servers” per blade. That means you can have almost one data center in one rack of 4 enclosures. Currently our full-height blades can have 4 processor chips, and we can get 8 of them into one enclosure and 4 enclosures per rack.
That’s 4 x 8 = 32 blades per rack, with 24 cores per blade or about 8 “virtual servers” per blade, a whopping total of 32 x 8 = 256 virtual servers per rack.
Again, this is my personal opinion, I’m not representing my company — because I’m an engineer, I’m not in marketing and I don’t want to have problems because I said this without their permission. All this is just “speculation”. But you just read about what AMD said about their CPU chips. And what I stated about our blades is accurate as far as I know, that’s current. So adding 2 x or 3 x more cores per server, is just a matter of changing the BIOS, and we will have to do other things like add nire RAM capacity.
A supreme THANK YOU to Andy Moore, who first stated the principle that “computer power doubles every 5 years”. I may have mistaken the it, but if AMD will please corrrect,,,,,,,