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 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 ...

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 ...

A socket is defined as the endpoint of a two-way communication between two processes running over a network. Inter-process communication can be achieved using sockets. After a connection between the ...