AMD launches Magny-Cours competition

[Chhotu uttam]

AMD has decided to drum up interest in its latest Magny-Cours 12-core processors with a new competition, aimed at crowdsourcing ideas for making the most of a 48-core server.

As announced on the AMD at Work blog by director of server and workstation product marketing John Fruehe - via ARN - the competition asks users to write an essay or blog post - or for the more theatrically-minded, create a video - which describes in no more than five hundred words just what could be achieved with a server running four 12-core Magny-Cours processors.

The prizes on offer for doing AMD's marketing are pretty sweet: the lucky winner will receive a quartet of 12-core 2.2GHz Magny-Cour processors - to be called the Opteron 6174 once it has officially launched - along with a copy of Windows Server 2008. In order to build a system using the prizes, the winner will also receive a Tyan S8812 quad-socket motherboard - although the DDR3 RAM will have to be purchased separately, and with the board supporting up to eight DIMMs per socket it could prove an expensive prize once all is said and done.

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WOW!

 

[BlackDave]

....wh----what???

 

[notmeanymore]

Hoh shit. Count me in for this competition. *Gets out notebook and writes down ideas*

Umm wtf, bro?

Published on 8th March 2010

 

[Rydian]

Raise your hand if you'll actually do anything with these processors.

 

[shakirmoledina]

*raises hand* U could put your computer specs in the sig and boast about having 12 cores. OR u could build a ps3 emulator with infinity graphics

 

[Bladexdsl]

you could build your own terminator!

 

[Chhotu uttam]

I guess the source was posted on march 2010,but yeah it gives the idea of 12 core processor

 

[Shockwind]

I guess the source was posted on march 2010,but yeah it gives the idea of 12 core processor

Don't post an old news, Chhotu uttam.

 

[Wabsta]

Hoh shit. Count me in for this competition. *Gets out notebook and writes down ideas*

Umm wtf, bro?

Published on 8th March 2010

It has so many cores, it can calculate backwards in time.

 

[Berthenk]

*raises hand* U could put your computer specs in the sig and boast about having 12 cores. OR u could build a ps3 emulator with infinity graphics

You mean infinite? Infinite graphics generation is already possible, one problem though: where to store it? Also, I don't see anyone using an emulator for GameCube and up without a GPU.

 

[tajio]

Old news but yeah 12 Cores would be fucking EPIC! I would keep the insides of my PC clean everyday if had that many cores

 

[raulpica]

Published on 8th March 2010

*cough*

Closing.