HP i2000
Overview
Time of introduction: 2001
The HP i2000 was HP’s first Itanium workstation with a first generation Itanium (Merced) and was more a proof-of-concept to deliver first Itanium hardware, based on an early Intel reference design (which was also rebranded and sold by other vendors). The system had certain limitations (some due to chipset/OS bugs), supported only first generation Itanium CPUs and was rather slow.
Price at time of introduction: about US $7,000 to $15,000.
Internals
CPU
| No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (I/D) | L2 (I/D) | L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Itanium 1 Merced | 733MHz | 16/16KB | 96KB | 2.0MB or 4.0MB |
| 1-2 | Itanium 1 Merced | 800MHz | 16/16KB | 96KB | 2.0MB or 4.0MB |
L1 and L2 caches are on-die, L3 is off-chip
Chipset
- Intel 82460GX chipset
- Two WXBs (Wide eXpansion Bridges) for each one PCI 64/66 bus
- PXB (PCI eXpansion Bridge) for one PCI 64/33 bus
- I/O and Firmware Bridge (IFB) communicates to IDE, USB and Super I/O
- Qlogic 12160 dual-channel Ultra3 SCSI controller (separate PCI card, standard configuration)
- Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet controller
- nVIDIA Quadro2 Pro video card (separate AGP card, standard configuration)
- ATA-33 IDE controller (on IFB)
- USB controller (on IFB)
- LPC47B27 Super I/O (serial and PS/2 ports controller)
Buses
- Memory bus, 266MHz, 4.2GB/s peak
- Two PCI 64/66 I/O buses (for expansion slots)
- PCI 64/33 I/O bus (for expansion slots)
- PCI 32/33 I/O bus (for onboard devices)
Memory
- PC100 registered SDRAM DIMMs
- Up to two memory expansion cards (MECs)
- Eight slots on each MEC
- Up to 1GB modules
- 16GB maximum (16×1GB — 8GB on each MEC) [some say 16GB is not supported — not sure what that means]
Expansion
- Five PCI 64-bit/66MHz slots, 3.3V
- Two PCI 64-bit/33MHz slots, 5V
- One AGP Pro 110 slot (supports AGP-1x, 3x, 4x, or AGPpro-110)
Drives
- Three (1.6″) or five (1″) internal 3.5″ bays for hard drives
- Three half-heigth 5.25″ bays for externally accessible drives
- One 3.5″ bay for externally accessible drive (standard shipped with a LS-120 drive)
External Connectors
- 10/100 Ethernet TP/RJ45
- Four USB ports (two on front, two on rear)
- DB9 male RS232C serial
- Two PS/2 for keyboard and mouse
- Three phone jacks (microphone, line-in and line-out)
References
- HP Workstation i2000 Owner’s Guide (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Company (May 2001, first edition)
Operating Systems
- HP-UX 11i v1.5 and v1.6 (later versions do not work) — due to a chipset bug HP-UX does not support a (local) X server on the i2000
- Linux for Itanium
- Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000 rate, int |
SPEC2000 rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i2000 733MHz 2MB |
623 | 7.2 | ||
| i2000 733MHz 4MB |
577 | |||
| i2000 800MHz 2MB |
655 2-CPU: 658 |
7.6 2-CPU: 13.2 |
||
| i2000 800MHz 4MB |
365 | 610 |
Physical dimensions/Power
- 457×254×645 mm height (with feet)/width/depth
- 38kg weight
- 800W max. power input