AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores
Tell AMD what you might do with 48 cores and you could have your plans realized!
What would you do with a 48-core system? That's what AMD wants to know – and if you give them a particularly compelling answer, you could be the owner of one such system.
The AMD Server team is giving away the following prize worth $8,189 USD:
* 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
And what might you have to do to bag such a prize? Submit your idea to AMD 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); or writing a blog (no more than 500 words).
AMD does give a tip that submitting a creation about playing World of Warcraft faster than anyone isn't going to help your cause. Instead, AMD urges you to think about what you can do to help society and others.
The contest runs until March 24 and is open to those in USA and Canada. Click here for the full details!
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"open to those in USA and Canada."
Well that's lame...
No Contest for NZ?
Aaaaaaaaaah, rub it in toms, rub it in.
Well since we are excluded anyway here it goes (Australia):
1) Bryce 3D would now render my creations in seconds instead of hours
2) Folding would boost my teams score skyhigh and help solve some of nature's mysteries!
well if my idea to create a utopian society isn't gonna win me the prize i ain't sharing. shame cos it needed exactly 48 cores to solve all the worlds problems :-p
I would play Crysis, of course!
And yes, it´s a joke. Since my country is not covered by this contest, i might as well do a bit of tongue-in-cheek.
I would fly to space. obviously.
Underclock it and play DOS games while laughing meniacally
I'm not allowed to join in, but erm...
Put a nuclear power plant in my garden and a wind tunnel on my desk so I can keep all my excess power cool and fed?
I'd use it to stage a DDOS attack on Toms Retardware, just to spite them for never posting a bloody UK comp.
USA and Canada only? Hmm, but miffed at that, to be honest. I've supported AMD through the thick and thin, and it would have been nice to be included. No it's not the end of the world, of course, but still..
only the a$$holes of the world get to play and thats bull$hit
I'd use it to design and simulate an AMD chip that could take the throne back from Intel.
And run a stupid Quadfire setup to rub it in Nvidia's face
Hmmm... Only open to Americans? My guess is the most popular answer will be "eat them"
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Start building an Intersect?
I'd use to make a webserver and host UK competitions that say "Not open to Americans, or French speaking countries."
I'm failing to see where it says this is a tom's competition.
Sure you could wonder why it is being reported on toms u.k but this is actual competition is not a toms one.
I only need 42 cores to solve the meaning of life.
I would use the 48 cores to build a machine that designed a 96 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 192 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 384 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 768 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 1536 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 3072 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design a 6144 core CPU that was capable of running a program that could design, well you get the idea!
Wooo another US and Canada only competition!
Glad to see others are annoyed still, and also glad to see not one sensible answer!
I'd pile them into a big pyramid and roll tennis balls at it while thinking "I wish my games could take advantage of all those processing cores".
Servers - virtualisation, that (presuming I could access enough RAM) would just about let me consolidate to one box + one mirror.
Home use - I have no idea.
Toms is not running this competition, they are just informing people that it exists.
AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores=I Want to Know What AMD is going to Do With 48 Cores