I am curious. Anybody else care to share their entries foe the 48 cores giveaway AMD contest( http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/03/03/48-cores-contest/ ). The deadline is passed.<p>Here is mine:
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-would-you-do-with-48-cores.html
Interesting topic, but why would an X number of cores be the reason of approaching this particular problem ? It seems as though 'more is better' is the way to go here, so a cluster of rented boxes would be one way of getting there, a couple of high end GPGPU cards would be another. The number of cores in a box is just another multiplicand under the bar to get to the time-to-a solution.
Id take it to a LAN and lord it over everyone else.<p>Seriously though... I dont need that much CPU power. I would prefer 4 cores and enough disk bandwidth to keep them busy.