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In it, Hormuth argues single-socket servers are occasionally better than a dual-socket machine.
You were compelled to write a blog on “Myths & Urban Legends About Dual-Socket Servers”.
What was the rationale behind starting it in the first place?
Two rationales inspired this piece.
The second reason is efficiency.
Historically the market was steered toward dual-socket solutions due to a lack of compelling single-socket offerings.
But whatever happened to quad-socket systems?
There are only so many cores you might stuff on one socket.
Our approach to socket size is a customer value-driven decision.
Well continue to execute this strategy as long as it is economically feasible and physically possible.
Will we eventually have bigger sockets?
Potentially, however, it needs to make economic sense for our customers and provide them value.
Beyond this and with the emergence of new technology (e.g.
true 3D layered CPU?
The socket count progression will continue to evolve.
I think there is a world where all hyperscalers will leverage servers with DPUs for operator-tenant separation.
