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

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[citation][nom]mrddr6[/nom]Wish I had a 30ghz single core CPU.[/citation]
I always wonder why someone doesnt develop a single core but with all the cache and transistors of a quadcore (Not really sure a 30Ghz cpu is feasible, but a 3ghz with a looooot of power is).
Sure, it would be a single computational thread but 4 times faster than any other... Not too bad if you ask me.
 
I would sell it and would use the money to help pay for a group trip to Haiti to help build an orphanage and water treatment plant (the leading cause of Haitians dying is because of dirty water).
 
Yeah, to all of you dreamers who think this is capable of playing Crysis (and whatnot), think again - this is NOT a setup for single-thread performance (BTW, MOST games on the market are single-thread, even in this day and age). This is a setup for multi-thread performance. So unless your workload can be parallelized to fully utilize 48 threads, you are pretty much out of luck with this one, and better stick with some entry-level or mid-range i5/i7 for a fraction of the price.

To be honest, I'd rather give a chance to GPGPU (now that's one massively parallelizing processing unit) than try using this. Granted that there are no other prerequisites or limitations in place, of course.
 
Make massive rainbow tables that can crack anything!!! That's really about it.
 
I would donate it to the Garrahan hospital (it's in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I live).

It's a children's hospital that among other things does important medical research and they could really use a powerful rig for simulations, DNA research, protein folding, etc...
 
I 'd throw in a bunch of ssds in raid and run 20 layer full system encryption and when i m bored with it after a few months I 'd then call NSA and tell them that my system is full of state secrets so they could come and try to break it while I laugh my ass off.
 
It's better for society to keep away from such useless powersucking junk like 48 core with no practical use at all.
I think society need at most dual core with at least 100 GHZ !!!
 
What would I do? I'd put the 48 cores to work figuring out how to come up with the $$$ to actually put MEMORY in the thing. Even at 1GB per core, you're looking at $1200 absolute minimum - and that's putting in cheap-ass DDR3-1333 2GB sticks.
 
[citation][nom]lilwillis[/nom]don't want to give away our answers until we submit it to the contest. otherwise you just shoot yourself in the foot in front of a few hundred THG readers.[/citation]

I don't care if someone stoles my idea as long as the rig ends in a hospital being useful to cure illness.
 
I'm sure some jackass is going to say cure cancer!

1. emulators running emulators running emulators
2. start my own cloud ;P
3. run 48 thin clients
4. laugh at the Cell processor's SPUs
 
Is AMD laughing at us with their 2.2 Ghz speed chip? Can't it make a 15 Ghz quad at least?

There is no RESPECT to society. I am sure when they suck out all our money from our pockets by luring into buying relatively slow cpu's they come out with faster ones like 10 Ghz (who knows 100 Ghz?) and low TDP.

AMD - stop producing your freakinig slow cpu's please!
 
Cool contest in all...but I see no mention on the contest page of this including the other necessary items like the massive power supplies needed, the hard drives, or the ram. I think you still have at least a couple more grand to spend on this set up.
 
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