Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. The market and technology has matured into 2-socket x86 and multi core highly integrated processors. In this piece, I hope ...

It is funny to think that Advanced Micro Devices has been around almost as long as the IBM System/360 mainframe and that it has been around since the United States landed people on the moon. The ...

It looks like we can look forward to Intel's new server CPU socket to be LGA 4677 with TE Connectivity, the maker of multiple connectivity solutions (and other gear) for CPU sockets, has unveiled its ...

This tutorial is an introduction to socket programming in Java, starting with a simple client-server example demonstrating the basic features of Java I/O. You’ll be introduced to both the original ...

Dual-socket servers may no longer be the 'be all and end all', with single-socket and quad-socket servers more viable than we thought When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A rack-mounted server that has two slots for CPUs. Typically two quad-core or 6-core CPUs are used, providing a total of 8 to 12 processing cores per server. See four-socket server. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop ...

A rack-mounted server that has four slots for CPUs. Typically four 6-core or 8-core CPUs are used, providing a total of 24 to 32 processing cores per server. See two-socket server. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Once a scarce and costly resource, computing power is fast becoming a commodity item with most of us carrying more in our pockets than we can use, and businesses able to get what they need, on-demand, ...