HP Visualize B1000, C3000 & C3600

Overview
Internals
External connectors
ROM update
References
Operating systems
Benchmarks
Physical dimensions/Power

Quick Facts
CPU	1 PA-8500/ 1 PA-8600/ 1 PA-8700(+) 300-875 MHz
Cache	1.5-2.25 MB L1
RAM	8 GB
Drives	2 SCSI 1 FD 1 IDE
Expansion	6 PCI
Bandwidth	?
I/O	100E 2 SCSI 2 serial parallel 2 USB audio

Overview

These workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the 64-bit PA-8500 featuring large on-chip L1 caches. The C3600 is essentially a C3000 upgraded to a PA-8600 CPU, the C3700 is the same, but upgraded to a PA-8700 CPU. There were additionally various more upgraded models, e.g., the C3650 and the C3750, the former with a faster PA-8700 CPU, the latter with an even faster PA-8700+ CPU. The architecture was a major change from its predecessors, e.g. the C200 et al. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip was removed together with the GSC bus. All device I/O now attach to PCI buses, external I/O devices are connected to USB ports.

Model numbers:

B1000 and all C3x00/C3x50 have the 9000/785 model number

Internals

CPU

B1000: PA-8500 300 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3000: PA-8500 400 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3600: PA-8600 552 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3650: PA-8700 625 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3700: PA-8700 750 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3750: PA-8700+ 875 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache

Chipset

Astro memory/Runway controller
Four Elroy PCI bridges
National 87560 (SuperI/O), handling USB, RS232, parallel, floppy and IDE
National 87415 IDE controller
National USB controller
Analog Devices AD1889 sound chip
DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
Symbios Logic 53C896 SCSI-3 controller

Buses

Runway CPU/memory bus
PCI-32/33 device I/O bus
PCI-64/33 high-performance device I/O bus
PCI-64/66 high-performance graphics I/O bus
C37x0: PCI-64/100 high-performance graphics I/O bus
SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended external I/O bus
SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD storage I/O bus
IDE removable device I/O bus (can partially boot from CD-ROM, e.g., HP-UX)

Memory

278-pin 120 MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
Takes 128/256/512/1024 MB modules (needs latest firmware revision)
Eight slots
128 MB (1×128) minimum, 8 GB (8×1 GB) maximum

Expansion

One PCI 64-bit/66 MHz, 3.3 V slot (clocked at 100 MHz on C37x0 systems)
Three PCI 64-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
Two PCI 32-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
I/O slot layout (from top to bottom):
1. PCI-64/33, pci0, 5 V
2. PCI-64/66, pci1, 3.3 V (for primary graphics) [on C37x0 systems this is a PCI-64/100 slot]
3. PCI-64/33, pci0, 5 V
4. PCI-64/33, pci2, 5 V (for secondary graphics)
5. PCI-32/33, pci3, 5 V
6. PCI-32/33, pci3, 5 V

Drives

One tray for two 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
One tray for a 3.5″ Floppy drive
One tray for a half-heigth 5.25″ IDE drive, external accessible

External connectors

50-pin HD SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended
68-pin HD SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD
Two DB9 male RS232C serial
DB25 female parallel
TP/RJ45 10/100 Mbit Ethernet
Two USB ports for keyboard & mouse
Four phone jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out)

ROM update

There is a firmware update available for the PA-8500 and PA-8600-based B1000, C3000 and C3600 which contains the latest version (5.0).

PF_CBCJ0050.txt has details about the contents and installation of the patch.
PF_CBCJ0050 contains the patch.

A different firmware update is provided for the PA-8700-based C37x0 systems (version 2.0):

PF_CCJ70020.txt has details about the contents and installation of the patch.
PF_CCJ70020 contains the patch.

References

Manuals

B1000/C3x00 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 4.9 MB)
B1000/C3x00 Service Handbook (PDF, 3.2 MB)
VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120 KB)

Operating systems

HP-UX:
- B1000, C3000: 10.20 ACE 9906
- C3600: 10.20 ACE 9912
- 11.00 minimum EP 9808 [not sure—Ed.] or ACE9911, and 11i v1 (both only 64-bit releases)
Linux: works
OpenBSD (32-bit): works

Benchmarks

Model	SPEC95, int	SPEC95, fp	SPEC95 rate, int	SPEC95 rate, fp	SPEC2000, int	SPEC2000, fp	SPEC2000 rate, int	SPEC2000 rate, fp
B1000	23.9	39.3	217	378
C3000	31.8	52.4	287	471	313	321
C3600	42.0	64.0	379	576	432	433	5.0	5.0
C3650					508	542	5.9	6.3
C3700					604	576	7.0	6.7
C3750					678	674

Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.

Physical dimensions/Power

445×229×495 mm height/width/depth
rack-mounted: 6U height, 451×665 mm width/depth
20.9kg net weight, 25.4kg fully loaded
805W max power input
3.8A max RMS at 240V
7.4A max RMS at 120V

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