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 ...

The single-socket server used to be the lowest end of servers, but potent new chips are raising its value. For the longest time, single-socket servers were the bottom of the server hierarchy, using ...

One of the key strategic moves that AMD made when it architected its comeback in the datacenter was to beef up the compute, I/O, and memory on a single server socket while at the same time making that ...

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 ...

Dell EMC PowerEdge 6415 – a 1U single socket server designed for dense computing. This server will support up to 32 cores, 2TB of DDR4 RAM, and 10PCIe NVMe drives. When I think of the 6415, I think of ...

AMD's Epyc 7000 processors will power three new Dell PowerEdge servers. The emphasis is on one-socket solutions for the enterprise. AMD scored a significant win in its efforts to retake ground in the ...

The Open Compute Project Foundation celebrated its tenth anniversary at this month’s 2022 OCP Global Summit, held in San Jose, California. The Open Compute Project (OCP) itself started at Facebook in ...

Forget dual-core or quad-core chips. Octa-core? Meh. Who wants a docosa-core computer? Intel announced on Thursday (PDF) the launch of the Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family designed for ...

I'm considering buying a server board that has two CPU sockets, but I don't want to afford both CPUs right now. Is that a problem? Can I just add in the other CPU later like adding extra memory DIMMs?

Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

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 ...