AMD Wants to Know What You'd Do With 48 Cores

[Marcus Yam]

Tell AMD what you might do with 48 cores and you could have your plans realized!

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[visa]

Porn.

 

[cushgod]

I would load 12 Battlefield BC2 instances and use Win7 , WinIcon+TAB to switch between them.

 

[mindless728]

as a CS student this would be awesome for Crypto and Parallel computing

 

[tayb]

Surf the web.

 

[mianmian]

porn, 48P? ridiculous.

 

[warmon6]

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.

darn. well looks like F@H it is!

 

[mattshwink1]

Fold like a crazed gerbil!

 

[killerclick]

They can go to hell with their contest. I can pay $9000 and use my new 48 core system as a heater.

 

[tethoma]

I would watch all my games and apps designed for 1, 2, or 4 cores not use the other 44 cores.

What applications would support this?

 

[fleming21]

Laugh at the core i7 975. 🙂

 

[dkcrogue]

I'd use all that CPU power to compress data in real time as it is writen to HDD/SSD in order to increase throughput!

 

[Guest]

Play Crysis

 

[mrddr6]

Wish I had a 30ghz single core CPU.

 

[reddozen]

My essay was turned in yesterday in fact... lol

 

[mavroxur]

2 chicks at the same time, man.

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]mianmian[/nom]porn, 48P? ridiculous.[/citation]
Holodeck porn!

 

[jrharbort]

Running the PC 24/7 to help contribute to finding a cure for diseases or cancer would be great.

 

[ravewulf]

Re-encode my entire video collection ro h.264 and AAC, compress all the DVDs of meetings at my local Cable TV Studio in the same manner, and run folding@home

 

[nevertell]

I'd contribute to the development of open source software/projects and help educate other people, I'd give people a chance to work/play with such a big monster.
And compile 10 kernels at the same time while playing crysis on max with linux through wine.

 

[brett1042002]

folding@home

 

[ecnovaec]

running the PC 24/7 is more likely to CAUSE cancer than cure it

 

[Korkwin]

Calculate a way to pay my electric bill.

 

[Korkwin]

Calculate a way to pay my electric bill.

 

[efeat]

What would I do with 48 cores?

Nothing useful.