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.
Full story:
http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/03/03/48-cores-contest/
i submitted my essay with reasons as following
- i would stop world hunger and love AMD with a sexy passion.
i have no legit reason to own the prize other than the fact its cool, so hopefully my creative writing style will persuade them.
I could submit another entry and say im going to use the computers to start up a server that will..... stop world hunger.
all my eggs in one basket? what are you talking about.
-Sym