HP Visualize J6000 & J6700

Overview
Internals
External connectors
ROM update
References
Pictures
Operating systems
Benchmarks

Quick Facts
CPU	1-2 PA-8600/PA8700(+) 552-875MHz
Cache	1.5-2.25MB L1
RAM	16GB
Drives	2 SCSI 1 ATAPI
Expansion	3 PCI
Bandwidth	CPU 2GB/s Mem 2GB/s I/O 1.75GB/s
I/O	100E SCSI 2 serial parallel 2 USB audio

Overview

These small workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the new 64-bit PA-8600 and PA-8700, both featuring large on-chip L1 caches. The architecture was a major change from those of its predecessors. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip was dumped together with the old GSC bus. All these devices now sit on several PCI buses, human I/O devices are connected to USB ports. The case can be used on the desktop or fitted in a 19″ rack (2U).

Model numbers: all have the HP 9000/785 model number.

Internals

CPU

J6000: 1-2 PA-8600 552MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
J6700: 1-2 PA-8700 750MHz with 768/1536KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
J6750: 1-2 PA-8700+ 875MHz with 768/1536KB on-chip I/D L1 cache

Chipset

The system is built around the HP Astro chipset:

HP Astro chipset
- Astro memory and I/O controller connects to the two processors via the Runway processor bus (2.0GB/s), the memory bus (2.0GB/s) and eight I/O channels (ropes — aggregate 2.0GB/s) and contains both memory, I/O and cache controllers
- Four Elroy PCI bridges connect the PCI slots and I/O devices on the onboard PCI bus to the Astro with an aggregate bandwidth of 2.0GB/s on seven I/O channels (one of the eight channels of the Astro controller is unused)
  1. PCI 64/66 I/O slot on two channels — 0.5GB/s
  2. PCI 64/66 I/O slot on two channels — 0.5GB/s
  3. PCI 64/66 I/O slot on two channels — 0.5GB/s
  4. Onboard I/O devices (Fast Ethernet, SCSI, audio, IDE/USB etc.) on one channel — 250MB/s
National 87560 (Super I/O), integrates 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 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller

Buses

Runway CPU bus with 2.0GB/s
Memory bus, about 2.0GB/s
I/O bandwidth of around 1.75GB/s
Three PCI-64/66 buses for expansion slots
PCI-64/33 bus for onboard I/O devices
SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD buses main storage I/O
IDE bus for CD/DVD removable media

Memory

278-pin 120MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
16 slots
Takes 512MB/1GB DIMMs
1GB (2×512) minimum, 16GB maximum (16×1G)

Expansion

Three PCI 64-bit/66MHz, 3.3V slots

Drives

One tray for two 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
One tray for a slim-line ATAPI CD-ROM

External connectors

68-pin HD SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD connector (SE)
Two DB9 male RS232C serial
DB25 female parallel
TP/RJ45 10/100Mbit 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-8600-based J6000, 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 J67x0 systems (version 2.0):

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

References

Manuals

Pictures

J6000: front,
J6000: back,

Operating systems

HP-UX:
- J6000: 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
J6000	42.60	62.70	384 2-CPU: 758	564 2-CPU: 847	441	433	2-CPU: 9.7	2-CPU: 8.0
J6700	57.60	85.90			603	581	2-CPU: 13.4	2-CPU: 10.5
J6750					676	651	2-CPU: 14.9	2-CPU: 11.5

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