Would it not be way cool to have your whole room turn into an interactive video game. 48 cores and tons of ram creating a space filled with warlords and nymphs.

I feel the need for speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Faster and more realistic rendering: a few years ago one would have to build a cluster of multiple machines to achieve the same thoughput as an 48 core system. Still images could use rendering algorithms like raytracing, ambient light and multiple light sources to achieve unmatched realistic views of real world or imaginary phantasies. Or think of Avatar, the movie, done in realtime. Animation videos could be produced in way less time and superior quality as TV is shifting to high definition and 3D. Companies can affordably visualize business related data (nevertheless might be still in search for people to understand and analyze what they see).

* Multimedia format conversion. Transfer broadcasted or stored content for mobile personal use or own digital media to suit different playback devices like netbooks or touch-screen mobiles take lot of time with current processor capacity. With 48cores the transcode rates would skyrocket and allow these transformations to happen in less time.

* Information mining for your business: have 48cores mining your corporate network and internal website, build a frequently refreshed cache to allow faster retrieval for content and documents. Think of g**gle for your internal web.

* Data deduplication: corporate data very often is stored and maintained multiple times leading to exponential growth for storage requirements and data inconsistency over time. Use 48cores to search for and compare data found in email repositories, equal attachments, identify and link them to a unique copy. Do compression of the data stored and decompression on the fly. Do not forget to backup nevertheless.

* Numerical quantum physics and chemistry: ask those guys for need of processing power, they take whatever they can get e.g. Computational_physics or Computational_chemistry. They might find some useful medication faster and save a lot of lives.

Regards M

What’s on the screen is the picture of pure productivity!

I would be running at least 3 instant of my favorite 3d software:
– one for particle simulations FX
– one for rendering batches of animations
– last one for doing some 3d model or animation.
- At least one image editor like photoshop for texturing or painting.
- A game editor like unity3d to check the final form of the game model, textures and animations.
- 2 or 3 movie player to see movements references for animation or for inspirations on compositions for painting.
- At least one to two instant messager to keep in touch with friends.
- A mp3 player to play “mood” music to keep motivations going.
- Several webpages for reference pictures, emails, information, and of course Facebook Farmville! haha.
- Several picture viewers for references of textures, people, creatures, nature, etc..

In general, I see people are usually impatience for results.. we want to do everything at once and with this 48 core setup I can see it happening. Its not that the cpu have to run at the fastest speed because we are not running JUST one application. Its more about running everything at once and with the eyefinity setup, you can see everything running at once. There’s is enough core, enough treads to see everything in action.. all at once.. multi-cores are not just for servers anymore.. just like orange juice is not just for breakfast anymore.. No one have to be impatience anymore.. for the first time, the human brain IS the limiting factor..

Happy Multitasking..!

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It would be better also if AMD would create a video card that would allow “processor upgrade: / or a video card that has a memory expansion (sodimm slot).

So yes, I think a system with these characteristics could provide a promising start to my project.

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.

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!