HP Integrity rx2600 & rx2620

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

Quick Facts
CPU	1-2 Itanium 2 1.0-1.6 GHz
Caches	32 KB L1 256 KB-1.25 MB L2 1.5-18 MB L3
RAM	24 GB (rx2600) 32 GB (rx2620)
Drives	3 SCSI 1 IDE
Expansion	4 PCI-X 64/133
Bandwidth	CPU 6.4 GB/s Mem 8.5 GB/s I/O 4.0 GB/s
I/O	GigE 10/100E VGA SCSI 4 USB 2 serial MGMT

Overview

The rx2600 is the rack-designated sibling of the zx6000 workstation. They feature a very similar system design and casing and can be both mounted in 2U of a 19″ rack. Also based on one or two Itanium 2 processors the rx2600 architecture differs from the zx6000 in that it is targeted for PCI-X I/O devices and thus does not feature the AGP port of the workstation-oriented zx6000.

The rx2600 was later marketed as rx2600-2.

Time of introduction: 2002-2003 (rx2600)/December 2004 (rx2620) with prices at the time starting at $7,300 (entry rx2600), $16,000 (average rx2600) to $33,000 (large rx2600).

Internals

CPU

rx2600/rx2600-2

No.	CPU Type	Clock	L1 (I/D)	L2 (I/D)	L3
1-2	Itanium 2 Deerfield? low-voltage	1.0 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Madison	1.3 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	3.0 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Madison	1.4 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Madison	1.5 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	6.0 MB

rx2620

No.	CPU Type	Clock	L1 (I/D)	L2 (I/D)	L3
1-2	Itanium 2 Madison?	1.3 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	3.0 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Madison?	1.6 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	3.0 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Montecito dual-core	1.4 GHz	16/16 KB	1024/256 KB	12 MB
1-2	Itanium 2 Montecito dual-core	1.6 GHz	16/16 KB	1024/256 KB	18 MB

All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).

Chipset

The systems are based on HP’s zx1 chipset, which consists of two main components — the MIO (memory and I/O controller) and the IOAs (I/O adapters):

Pluto zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller and connects the three central system buses:
1. Processor bus (6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR)
2. Two independent memory buses (each 4.25 GB/s)
3. Eight I/O channels (aggregate 4.0 GB/s, via the IOAs, see below)
The zx1 MIO also contains both memory and cache controllers.
Seven Mercury zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate bandwidth of 4.0 GB/s on eight 0.5 GB/s channels
1. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
2. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
3. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
4. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
5. Core I/O: IDE, USB, serial, (rx2600 only: Fast-Ethernet LAN) in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
6. Core I/O: Gigabit Ethernet and Ultra320 SCSI (on rx2620 there are each two Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI controllers) in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
7. Management: Ethernet LAN, VGA, serial in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s

The rest are standard third-party I/O chips:

Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom 5701)
Two-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (LSI 53C1030)
Ultra ATA-100 IDE controller (PCI649)
Serial controller, DUART (16550A-compatible)
10/100 Ethernet for management (Intel 82550)
Management processor card included by default (ECI card) — includes serial/ remote management and VGA
Radeon VGA graphics
EHCI USB controller
Processor Dependent Hardware (PDH) Controller
FPGA controller for ACPI (2.0) and LPC
Baseboard Management Controller for IPMI management interface (the BMC is a ARM7 RISC processor)

Buses

Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR
Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 4.25 GB/s — aggregate 8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth
Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
Four PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for expansion cards
Three PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for Core I/O cards (SCSI, networking, etc.)
Two SCSI-3 Ultra320 (LVD) storage I/O buses
UltraATA-100 IDE storage I/O bus

Memory

PC2100 ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
rx2600: up to 2 GB modules
rx2620: up to 4 GB modules
Twelve slots
DIMMs must be installed in quads
1 GB minimum (4×256 MB)
rx2600: 24 GB maximum (12×2 GB)
rx2620: 32 GB maximum (8×4 GB — the remaining four slots cannot be used)
8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth

Expansion

Four PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots, full-length
All PCI slots are 3.3 V

Drives

Three internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra320 SCSI SCA 80-pin hard drives, hot-plug; drives 1 and 2 are on one SCSI channel, drive 3 on the second SCSI channel
Slimline bay for optional IDE CD or DVD drive

External connectors

rx2600: Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
rx2620: Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45 management network (on management processor card)
VGA graphics
Ultra320 SCSI 68-pin
25-pin serial for management processor card, needs break-out cable for three serial ports
Four USB 2.0 ports
Two DB9 male RS232C serial

References

Manuals

Operation and Maintenance Guide HP Integrity rx2600 server and HP workstation zx6000 (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (September 2003, second edition)
User Service Guide HP Integrity rx2620 Server (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (August 2006, first edition, AD117-9003A)

Articles

Overview of the HP Integrity rx1620, rx2620, and rx4640 Servers (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (December 2006, rev. 4, 5982-9835EN)
Overview of the HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers technical whitepaper (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (October 2003, first edition, 5982-1595EN)

Operating systems

rx2600: HP-UX 11i v1.6, v2 and v3
rx2620: HP-UX 11i v2 and v3
Linux for Itanium
Windows Server 2003 64-bit
OpenVMS

Benchmarks

Model	SPEC2000, int	SPEC2000, fp	SPEC2000 rate, int	SPEC2000 rate, fp
rx2600 900 MHz 1.5 MB	674	1151	7.8 2-CPU: 15.5	2-CPU:
rx2600 1.0 GHz 3.0 MB	810	1427	9.4 2-CPU: 18.7	2-CPU:
rx2600 1.3 GHz 3.0 MB	1073	1808	12.4 2-CPU: 24.8	2-CPU:
rx2600 1.5 GHz 6.0 MB	1408	2119	15.3 2-CPU: 30.5	2-CPU:
rx2620-2 1.3Hz 3.0 MB	1170	2229	13.6 2-CPU: 26.9	15.9 2-CPU: 27.7
rx2620-2 1.6Hz 3.0 MB	1408	2553	16.3 2-CPU: 32.3	29.6 2-CPU: 48.5
rx2620-2 1.6Hz 6.0 MB	1535	2675	17.8 2-CPU: 35.5	31.0 2-CPU: 51.5

Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.

Physical dimensions/Power

Tower: 495×297×673 mm height/width/depth
Tower: 22kg net weight, 25.5kg fully loaded
Rack-mounted: 2U height, 482×680 mm width/depth
Rack-mounted: 17.5kg net weight, 22kg fully loaded
There exists a kit for converting the rack-mount version into a pedestial/tower one, which includes removing the rack rails and changing the fan/cooling system
650W hot-swap power supplies (one standard, optional second)

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