What would you do with 48 cores?

[petrusbroder]

Look here!

AMD has announced a contest (only residents of Canada and USA may take part) where the prize are ...:

1. Four new AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6174, 12-core (2.2 GHz)
2. A 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 and
3. One copy of Windows Server® 2008

Deadline: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, @ at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

You need to write either an essay (500 words max), or a blog (500 words max) or make a YouTube video of max 3 minutes. From the rules:

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.

Ok, my friends, lets go for a competion! OK, a 2.2GHz processor is not so fast - but 12 cores? and four of them? You would need 4 coolers, at least 4 sticks of RAM, a HDD, a DVD-W/R and a enclosure which would fit the mobo ... but considering the crunching power of such a computer ...

48 WUs at the same time in BOINC-projects ...

 

[Rudy Toody]

Thanks for this info, Peter!

I will try to work up something to emphasize distributed computing as the best way to help society by using this computer.

So far, on the blog, the high school kid from Utah gets my vote.

Get creative everyone! You can't score if you don't take the shot!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Crunch and BBQ at the same time....

Definitely going to write something up for this. I will pass this along to my EXE (computer club fraternity -- not a social fraternity, more like an anti-social one. LOL ) folks as well.

 

[dajeepster]

cure cancer?!

I'm wondering if I could wc this

 

[Rudy Toody]

I would load all 48 cores with fuzzy logic to monitor my rechargeable nose-hair trimmer to keep it from over-charging.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Check this out!

 

[biodoc]

48 cores?

I would throw them out and buy more apples!

 

[petrusbroder]

Why not plant them and get a lot more cores later? At a germination rate of 25% you'll get 12 apple threes which may produce thousands of apples and cores. OK, it may take 4 - 6 years for the first harvest, but after that ...

You may need a 48-core cruncher to mathematically model all the good consequences (apples, oxygen production, carbon dioxide binding, soil improvement, people's happiness, romantic moments under a apple tree, all the birds singing in the apple tree ...).

 

[Rudy Toody]

Why not plant them and get a lot more cores later? At a germination rate of 25% you'll get 12 apple threes which may produce thousands of apples and cores. OK, it may take 4 - 6 years for the first harvest, but after that ...

You may need a 48-core cruncher to mathematically model all the good consequences (apples, oxygen production, carbon dioxide binding, soil improvement, people's happiness, romantic moments under a apple tree, all the birds singing in the apple tree ...).

And you should model how many initials surrounded by hearts can be carved in a tree before it falls over and dies.

 

[petrusbroder]

Falls over and dies? When is a tree dead? Does it first die and then fall over? Or is it just liing (I hate some hard spelled words in english) there and slowly fading ...

 

[Ken g6]

Why not plant them and get a lot more cores later? At a germination rate of 25% you'll get 12 apple threes which may produce thousands of apples and cores. OK, it may take 4 - 6 years for the first harvest, but after that ...

You know, I hear apple trees have to be cloned to get good apples. The tree you plant is called a "spitter", and if it grows up, its fruit will be bitter. (Help, I'm rhyming! ) To get good apples, you have to graft parts of a tree of one of the good varieties onto the spitters.

 

[petrusbroder]

You know, I hear apple trees have to be cloned to get good apples. The tree you plant is called a "spitter", and if it grows up, its fruit will be bitter. (Help, I'm rhyming! ) To get good apples, you have to graft parts of a tree of one of the good varieties onto the spitters.

Not necessarily --- but using 48 cores you could probbaly model this.
There are some really good apple strains around ... hardy trees, sweet apples which just have the right sort of freshness.

 

[biodoc]

Not necessarily --- but using 48 cores you could probbaly model this.
There are some really good apple strains around ... hardy trees, sweet apples which just have the right sort of freshness.

Maybe I'll try planting some apple seeds. Although there are some great apple orchards in New England where we can go and pick fresh apples.

mmmmm.

 

[GLeeM]

You know, I hear apple trees have to be cloned to get good apples. The tree you plant is called a "spitter", and if it grows up, its fruit will be bitter. (Help, I'm rhyming! ) To get good apples, you have to graft parts of a tree of one of the good varieties onto the spitters.

I think they graft the clone (good apple branch) onto special "hardy rootstock".
Where are the tree hugging protesters?
Poor "hardy rootstock" tree is killed and its roots are used by some "Elite" with good looks.

 

[petrusbroder]

I still want 48 cores - but can not take part ...

 

[theAnimal]

Or is it just liing (I hate some hard spelled words in english) there and slowly fading ...

That would be `lying`.

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL! Thanks!

 

[NorthernLights]

Seriously? You guys went from computers to fruit in a few sentences?? LOL!

 

[Ken g6]

Seriously? You guys went from computers to fruit in a few sentences?? LOL!

But of cores! ^_^

 

[petrusbroder]

Rofl!

 

[Rudy Toody]

I seed that one coming!