What would you do with a 48 core chip?

More clock speed is better for high-speed calculations. If they can make internal bus speeds to support this... the artificial intelligent Robots are not too far away...

or is that what i'd do with 1024 gb of ram?

Use a cluster of them for my holy grail work (Theory of Everything).

I might finally be able to play Cysis.

... start a company to compete with Google or Microsoft, even though I believe Google was first in line for more than 1,000 of these 48-core units. So they still would have a leg up, darn!

I would create a lot of fractal images and fractal movies of both the Mandelbrot set and my own fractals. I won't keep them to myself as the amazing colourful movies will be posted to YouTube. The pictures will be posted to Flickr for all to see.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1593703/intel-demos-48-core-possibilities <- t 48 cores already showcased?

What I would use it for is to convert my video downloads automatically to a format and resolution that is best for my iPhone and (pre-ordered) iPad. As is it now it takes about an hour to an hour and a half to encode a 1.5 to 2 hour movie on my 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo. Way too long when you just wanna throw a few movies on there for a car trip. I figure with a highly threaded encoding app it could do the task is 5 or 10 minutes!

Reallife-like AI in some japanese sex games where it looks and feels like real life interaction using the new sony motion controllers and mic and so on.

A dream come true for the japs and me of course.

Imagine unlimited AI and speech and the rest of the bullshit the japs implement into those hantai games along with those underage looking girls. There on some next shit like trying to rewrite their own women. I don't know.

You know; solitaire, minesweeper, porn surfing, .......

i'd colo the bastard and sell off some vm's

The power of 46 cores I'd sell cheaply to a needy mortgage bank, as the remaining 2 cores would suffice for my daily wwweb serfing.

Running GOD would make IT easier for Media to Present the Future, and that is a Universal Application although I suppose the Truth buried in that statement is that a 48 core chip would make No Difference to Global Operating Devices at all, but IT does speed up Third Parties Remotely and Act as a Proxy Driver ..... Spooky AIdDevelopment of Virtual Machinery and CHAOS and SurReal NEUKlearer HyperRadioproActive IT Quantum Control Systems.

Which is, in other terms which might be easier understood although not necessarily believed, the Beta Orderly Constructive Management of Human Perception to Deliver Alternate Virtual Realities Tailored to Match and Make Better Use of Earthed Assets in their Myriad Disparate Dysfunctional Locations ....... Existences in other Space Places/Time Zones.

amfM calling AMDresden re Creative CyberSpace Command and Control of Computers and Communications with Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems. ....... Vorsprung durch Beta Technik and AIRoboTechnICQ aka Virtualised AIMachine Methodology.

If you are not in, you cannot Win Win and thus Lose to Future Builders by Simple Natural and Ignorant Defaults.

As any Prize Hooker will tell you, it is not what you have got that matters, but knowing how to use IT for the Constant Enjoyment and Selfless Pleasure of Others which Pays the Rent and Delivers Dividends.

Life in LOVE* and as a Great Game in Virtual Reality Meme/XSSXXXXStreams, AMD?

*Live Operational Virtual Environments

It would make an ideal ultra-compact heating source for my home and I could also use it to balance my checkbook.

I'd use it find John Connor.

Why the hell should I have to side with the other humans?

I'd load ESXi with 12 virtual machines, each with 4GB of ram. Storage would be a ten drive RAID 10 array of 600GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 hard drives with a secondary 24TB FC storage array (multiple 6TB arrays, spanned). I'd load up four Blu-Ray iso files at a time per VM and let the thing encode 24/7. When I ran out of Blu-Rays or Netflix was late, I'd run Folding@home.

10 cores - 1 each for all the services in the virus checker / ad blocker / firewall
1 for each icon on the task bar - that will be another 20 or so
1 for task manager
1 for each window / tab in Internet Explorer
3 for MS Office

are there any left to real work?

Well what with all the bloatware we have with more on the way it feels like we we need a 48 core in our laptops! I certainly can't run a modern browser and virus checker on an old single core processor machine even though it is a healthy 2.8 GHz.

Sorry bdg.. even 128 of these processors in parallel wouldn't even come close to be able to figure women out!
;)

Hard realtime CPU reservation technology

We know the answer is 42 - we just need to know the question.

Anyone going to the Royal Geographical Society tonight for the talk about numbers by Marcus de Satay? (sp?)

Should be interesting...

i would think encryption breaking would be the way to go. If you can crack wep in 5 minutes with a single core, I suppose it would be faster with 48 cores depending where the bottle neck is. Roaming free wireless through others encrypted networks allowing truly anonymous skype phone calls where the original IP recorded when signing up is worthless because you don't have your own internet account. i hope this freaks out the nsa screwballs.

Use all 48 cores too quickly work out how I will be paying the electricity bill.

First, Put LOCK On theINQ Financials & Divert. then write 42Oweee' Song.

Lastly, figure out how 3 divides into 48. Oh,Ya ForGot already did that.

Andy Use Finger AND toes to Count. its' 48 Weeks & Extra Lunar month for RED. Plus Leap year=OWE DRASHEK.

Really, I Personally SAVE Rover SPIRIT From Deep Cold Doom.

I would use this monster to discover a better way to grow weed. I would unlock the secrets of this sacred plant to prove once and for all "if it grows naturally from the earth it is good for all of mankind". The true task would be to calculate a way to bride my government to make weed legal! Peace out!

I would feed the DNA + some behavioral models of a women into a computational model and run some exhaustive tests. Should only take a few decades to crack this nut :-)

I'd just go around telling everybody that I've got a mother loving 48 core cpu.

"I can use a different core each day and still have 12 left for Christmas you bleepedy bleepin' bleeper"

To say it's too dificult to extend a contest outside the US because of 'tax' and such is just plain BS, there have been quite small websites who managed to figure it out and a multi-billion outfit with lawyers on staff and offices worldwide should be able to do it too
Unless the lawyers are all busy defending corrupt (former) CEO's I guess, but then you can hire an extra one.
Just be honest and say that the US is more susceptible to campaigns like that and so they do them there.
It's a more capitalistic society with more 'simple' (to put it politely) people after all.

I definitely would run the Haiku OS on that platform !

I would probably use it for the parallell crypto needed in anonymous networks such as I2P.

http://www.i2p2.de

Folding at home is definitely the thing to do!

I expect, you will get your pink suit soon, because AMD can not make money from its crappy products. Because, I believe everyone, don't want to see AMD again.

SETI/BOINC ;)
Lots of it!

If AMD releases a 48 core chip I will go dual socket for 96 cores!!! Now thas Wow woot! Or maybe a 4 socket mobo for 192 core super duper - overclocked mega PC! I wonder how much more RAM would be required to run properly.

First off or you suggesting that, AMD can do something better then the "Second Greatest Computer of All Time" could do?

Besides your forgetting that AMD (Much like the rest of this pathetic bloody Planet), is ran by a bunch Golgafrinchans
who have about as much grasp of the concept of "42" as a concussed Bee.

I guess the license for the prize would not be transferable so that would be a lot of effort for a bird scarer!

find out if the answer really is 42!

If you don't understand you're a heathen.

Pi

it will be interesting to run
emerge -j100 -vuDNe world
on typical Gentoo desktop with over 100 packages.
it takes 4-5 hours to complete on C2Q with 8GB of RAM.
It is also interesting how much RAM you gonna need to do it (work dir is RAM drive with autofs).
Mainstream systems that can rebuild themselves in under 2 hours can lead to general acceptance of installation from source.

more cores mean more parallel processing power and thats realy help electromagnetic quantum field calculations and simulations. if its done this lower energy consuption its very pleased...

notepad would run really well

:-)

Interestingly enough, while AMD is doubling the number of processors on chip, they are halving the maximum number of chips that can go on one board to 4 (rather than 8). This isn't an overall area shrink for high-end server users. Perhaps still an energy reduction.

And I'd use it for Seventeen or Bust.

Unfortunately, Windows is still such a horrendously hacked piece of spaghetti that no number of cores is going to help at some point.

The challenge is that most tasks quickly become disk-bound.

What might be cool though are some graphical tasks like browsing photo libraries - all those cores could be busy resizing and transforming images dynamically.

...use 1 core to clone Palin's Brain...which leaves 47 to figure out what the 1st frikken one is doing..

Perhaps make it liquid cooled, and have it double up as a coffee machine? ;)

... and how on earth could you resist nicknaming it Mangy Cores?

What's the frontside bus speed on this beast, how much cache does each core have, how much memory does it support with how many channels and at what frequency?

For stock market trading AI's. This is just about right for the nightly re-training of neural networks you'd want for that. They could then run on a smaller machine (MLFF neural nets are training time intensive, but run fast once trained).
Many other things would run into cache invalidation delays unless very carefully put together to avoid that -- you don't have bandwidth to memory for 48 unrelated tasks (or really, 4 for that matter) and still use all the CPU cycles. That slow starting burst read stuff really whacks things that jump around a lot in memory -- you have to read a whole cache line to get one bit, and wait for it.

Can you say 3D?
That 48 core x 100000 will enable us to render Hollywood-like 3D graphics in real time.

What else but run SETI 48 times. Little green men are out there.

Actually we are not afraid of great ideas from europe, that is where the processors are made.

However, when lawyers and politicians get involved, everyone wants a piece of the action.

We do contests all the time that are worldwide. However, the value of the prize creates tax and legal liablities that prevent us from taking the contest to all regions.

As to no intel employees? We want to make sure that it lands in the hands of someone that can put it to good use, not dismantle it for competitive intelligence.

Oh, and to Crappular, we know that there are a lot of people who know what to use 48 cores for, don't worry, there are plenty of server applications for that product ;)

If they could somehow deploy this CPU into a small hub connected to my laptop with a USB 2.0 port, I believe it would really speed up my print jobs by at least 110%. My old Lexmark printer seems to be struggling these days and could do with a bit of a boost?

Just a thought...

Love Dave,
xxx

OC it?

it's in the fine print...

I hate competition that excludes smart ideas from abroad. Are you, American people, scared of Italian geniuses?

In Europe we call that "discrimination" and it's not allowed....

multiple virtualizations. Like 4 machines in one, where I can switch entire desktops, so I can run a game with physics simulation, while on the other machines I'd do web browsing, model simulations, CAD designs and another one for prOn viewing.

Just kidding ;) But someone will... I wonder what timeframe we are looking at for RSA ;)

Ray tracing. Lots of ray tracing.

Firstly you have to have the right software, software that is geared up for parallel processing. Secondly the process has to be such that a super computer is over kill (i.e. using 16+ cores but less than 100's).

There are a lot of engineering and finical calculations that would benefit from having this number of cores on the users' desktop(s) - stress analysis, geology mapping, fluid dynamics, what-if analysis and data mining to name some.

3D work is probably better handled in a graphics card, though for games having this number of Cores will enable more opponents have more complex AI.

I would get pretty excited about the prospects of encoding video on a wee puppy of that nature.

They want to build 48 cores, but they, the very people who should research their market, can't think why anyone would want one!!

What folly these cores begat.

Here's a thought, build a wafer scale chip that has gigs of memory, single core, interconnects, etc. all running as fast as the megahurtz madness will take us.

Just about the only real use for a 48-core chip but be to fold a lot of protein strands or crunch a lot of numbers, perhaps you could find a billion digit prime and claim $250,000, but I suppose for that you would also need a lot of memory...

Cryptic could makes use of them to get rid of the constant server lag for Star Trek Online...

Use 'em to create an on-chip Beowulf cluster

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Eligibility: What Would You Do With 48 Cores? (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia) and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are at least eighteen (18) years of age as of the Entry Period (defined below) or have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence, whichever is older.

An quebec is due to some tax on prizes they do and other annoying things above and beyond speaking French.