In the world of server technology, dual-socket was once cutting-edge technology. Dual-socket was the best way to scale the performance of individual servers by putting two processors in a single server —theoretically up to double performance in about the same server footprint. They became prominent during the transition from scale-up (more sockets) to scale-out (more servers) computing. This was the transition from the mainframe and many socket server era to mainstream dual-socket x86 servers. T...