The most important news first. Old computers that are already getting a bit long in the tooth can be given a helping hand at relatively little expense. Increasing overall performance by 100 percent ...

"We are entering a new era of compute where energy-efficient and thermally optimized single-socket architectures are becoming a viable alternative to traditional dual-processor servers," said Charles ...

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 ...

Sockets provide an interface into the kernel’s networking protocols by allowing programmers to create a communication endpoint in the form of a file descriptor, and by binding a name to the file ...

To make the best use of the ss command, it’s important to understand what a socket is. A socket is a type of pseudo file (i.e., not an actual file) that represents a network connection. A socket ...