AMD launches contest giving away an $8,100 Magny Cours 48 core setup

The AMD “What would you do with 48 cores?” contest asks you to write an essay/blog or video describing what you would do with a 48 core system to make the world a better place. The winner receives an $8,100 setup including a TYAN 4S board and four 12-core Opteron Magny Cours processors.

Hopefully, there will be some interesting entries and the winner will be someone who can really take advantage of what is essentially a supercomputer setup.  In particular I was thinking that some OpenCL-savvy developer would describe a compelling new solution since OpenCL can take advantage of all 48 CPU cores (as well as the more traditional GPU cores).

The actual prize is:

• Four new AMD Opteron processors Model 6174, 12-core (2.2 GHz)
• 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
• one copy of Windows Server 2008