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 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 ...

While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. And we never forget the important place that big, fat, shared memory NUMA ...

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, ...

Addressing applications that require high performance and scalability, PICMG’s COM-HPC is often found in industrial automation, telecommunications, medical devices, embedded systems, edge computing, ...

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 ...

Some high-end motherboards for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors have been tipped to include a dual-lever retention mechanism called "2L-ILM." We've seen something similar before with LGA 2011, ...