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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Entry for says US RESIDENTS ONLY while this page says US and Canada. Any changes getting clarification.
US and Canada (minus Quebec)
if i have 48 core to win, i will start hosting a lot of games, usefull torrents, and website for my friends and their friends friends, ^_^ wow thats a lotta cores for my rig
When I send my 500 words Blog in. Does a link counted as one word or words that make up a link?
Also, if AMD can put separate core onto a Die why can’t AMD also install the Memory (The 4G byte DDR3) into the core, Then have the USB 3 (or cross fire)output from the chip? This also will enable easy linking to each computer core.
A link shouldn’t matter. We said 500 words because we have to read through all of them. More than 600 entries that I am aware of so far. Putting things like memory in the core is expensive. If there is a defect in the memory, then the whole die is shot. It would be a waste to have to discard a $500 processor because the $80 memory did not pass the test.
I have always been good with my camera and planning to buy an HD video camera. I am not an expert already but am fairy good with avid media composer and all I need is a rendering power house and I can finally start my passion witch is making movies and documentaries about poverty and environment. should I make any money out of it that will certainly go to charity as well.
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48 Cores will definitly improve the response for large volume caclulation, with the column based in memory technology today, I’m working on the large volume data cacluation on the fly with real data, which try to provide more transparence to business requirement — insight into the real world. The increasing of cores matched exactly the business movement. More cores and cache will empower the capacity and response of business process, transforming the business into new era with more transforparence and efficiency, which will change the way for business.
Looking forward to get hands-on experienece with the 48 cores.
It would be fun to build one of these. When will the required components be available for individual builds – processor, cooling, Tyan mobo, power supply specs, etc.. ?
I would jump into programming complex business tasks. A really simply coded program could do amazingly complex calculations. Simple ‘Brute Force’ programming of tasks with 48 cores of power – would be simple, powerful and elegant. For example programming speech recognition use ‘Brute Force’ programming could achieve a machine that can truly & accurately do real time voice to text dictation and even begin to push into artificial intelligence.
Of course none of this can really be done unless there is developed an operating system for programmers (NOT WINDOWS – too much baggage) that is like DOS / UNIX that can address and control all cores and memory simply – directly.
Maybe the best idea for this new system is a platform for creating independently running software to harness this systems complete capabilities from a coders’ perspective.
You can buy complete barebones systems from serveral of our infrastructure partners:
http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-announces-strong-2010mar17.aspx
In addition, all of the major OEMs will be announcing products when we launch before the end of the month.
Dear friends
48 cores?
For me this short sentence have the same meaning that ( 48 colors in portuguese speak ).
Each core must make better a section of human life,
power without imagination is nothing!
I have plans and if a win a dream machine like this, I will work better to the end of my life.
Congratulations!
Should I have gotten a conformation Via email? How do i know my essay has gone through?
There is no confirmation email. If you received the “submitted” page then your essay went through.
I’ve been working for a long time to a program that once completed should predict human behavior and provide guidance (statistics) about decisions that a person or group of people can take in a given situation.
As the number of input variables is very large and they are changing as the structure evolves towards a decision based on a mathematical model, processing power needed for such a project is huge. By default, the processing time should be very short to reach a true result, any additional factors that might appear in amplifying complex calculus equation by introducing new variables which in turn must be integrated into the predictive-evolving system base.
So yes, I think a system with these characteristics could provide a promising start to my project.