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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most servers in today's enterprise computing landscape adopt a dual-socket format configuration rather than a single-socket one – meaning it can house dual processors that work in tandem, rather than ...

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 ...

All Linux distributions provide a wide range of network applications—from dæmons that provide a variety of services such as WWW, mail and SSH to client programs that access one or more of these ...