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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I’m in the Medical IT business a 48 core would improve processing speed and improve patient transactions including video electronic medical records and finally improve patient care
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.
With 48 core we could catch the latest 25 % of not virtualized servers in our environment. All power or memory consumtioning applications should be virtualized on this base. –> The next step to the nearly full virtualized datacenter.
I would reduce the size of my current i5 cluster
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Or add more POWER!
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HI.
I am unfortunatly NOT from USA.
I still post what i would do with it, if you think i shoulda been the winner, dont give to a folder, cpu’s suck at it anyways….
I would use it for my lab, when i get fiber hosted servers for my friends.
As the isp who are comming with the fiber this year gives out 400 mbit both ways will make it possible to host servers for friends, and make it a real lab along with my lab envoriment.
Using ESXi, with AMD cpu’s =) have two quadcore’s running in the cluster atm.
This and the cisco 1812 + gigabit switch+nas have given me a little bit of a edge when it comes to my study.
I’m more of a do/learn and read along type of person, so a lab is required for me.
Alltho 48 cores in a single pc for me isnt worth much, but two 24 cores would be <3.
My gaming pc runs just a PH II 940 with 533 mhz memory (8gb) and a 5850, which is sufficient for any game, going 48 cores on a gaming machine is waste of money, power(co2 in many countries, coal, gas powerplants.).
I think a guy who studies should win it, host a server, something like that.
Folding at home should be ran at gpu's since it serves the envoriment(not that i care) much better, and is faster in every way.
With 48 cores? I could fold for the cure!!!!!
Presently in Naples Florida – home town Quebec City, Canada.
Here’s what I’d do with 48 cores.
In 1984 I was running my small business using a Motorola 6809 micro-processor powered system running Uniflex (a unix-like O/S) with six terminals for business transactions and management functions.
In 2010 I’d use one 48 core system to run eight small businesses each with their requisite transactions and business management functions.
That way the memory throughput management, disk access and I/O throughput would be tested to their fullest.
If there was any useable compute power left in the 48 core system I’d use for video production and burning multimedia devices for Linux distributions.
I would use it to track the effects of climate change around the globe. When dealing with the minutia of temperature fluctuations on a global scale, plus the history of temperature change cycles would require intense processing capacity. Simulations could be developed to determine the effects of pollution, volcanic activity and icecap errosions on the environment.
If nothing else, it might be used to provide better weather forecasts…
I would devote it to crunch on scientific data for cancer research and extraterrestial signal processing
benefits for ALL