HP Integrity rx5670
Overview
The rx5670 is a 7U rack-mountable SMP Itanium 2 server with up to four processors.
Closely matching the rx4640 system architecture, the rx5670 is based on HP’s
zx1 Itanium chipset.
PA-RISC L-Class servers (built into the same system/chassis) could be upgraded
by a board-swap
— changing the main system board, processors and support
hardware — to Itanium 2 rx5670s (applies to
HP rp5400/rp5450 (L1000/L2000) and
HP rp5430/rp5470 (L1500/L3000)).
Time of introduction: 2002-2003, with prices at time of introduction between $23,000 (entry), $38,000 (average), $64,000 (large).
Internals
CPU
| No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (I/D) | L2 (I/D) | L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-4 | Itanium 2 Madison | 1.3 GHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 3.0 MB |
| 1-4 | Itanium 2 Madison | 1.3 GHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 6.0 MB |
All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).
Chipset
The rx5670 is based on HP’s zx1 chipset, which consists of three main components — the MIO (memory and I/O controller), the IOAs (I/O adapters) and the SMEs (scalable memory expanders):
- Pluto zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller
and connects the three central system buses:
- Processor bus (6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR)
- Two independent memory buses (each 6.4 GB/s with six SMEs)
- Eight I/O channels (aggregate 4.0 GB/s, via the IOAs, see below)
- Twelve zx1 SMEs (scalable memory expanders), six on each DIMM/memory carrier board, attach to two independent zx1 memory buses (each 6.4 GB/s)
- Eight 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
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- One PCI 64/66 slot for Gigabit Ethernet and one SCSI controller (Core I/O) on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- One PCI 64/66 slot for management LAN, serial and one SCSI controller (Core I/O); and
one PCI 64/33 slot for optional graphics/USB on one channel (with the other slot) — 0.5 GB/s
The rest are standard third-party I/O chips, implemented on Core I/O cards in two or three PCI slots
- Dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI controllers (LSI 53C1010)
- SCSI controller (LSI 53C896)
- Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom 5701)
- Serial controller, DUART (16550A-compatible)
- IBM PCI-X to PCI-X bridge
Diva
remote management processor — serial and LAN- Optional Radeon VGA graphics (with USB on one card)
- Optional EHCI USB controller
Buses
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 6.4 GB/s — aggregate 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
- Three PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for expansions slots
- Three PCI-X 64/66 I/O buses for expansion slots
- PCI-X 64/66 I/O bus for Core I/O expansion slots
- PCI 64/33 I/O bus for graphics/USB slot
- Two SCSI-3 Ultra160 (LVD) storage I/O buses
Memory
- PC2100 ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
- Takes up to 2 GB modules
- One or two 24-DIMM memory carrier boards
- DIMMs must be installed in quads
- 1 GB minimum (4×256 MB)
- 96 GB maximum with two 24-DIMM boards (48×2 GB)
- 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
Expansion
- Three PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots
- Six PCI-X 64-bit/66 MHz slots
- Two PCI slots preloaded with core I/O cards
- One PCI 64/33 MHz slot for graphics/USB card (optional)
Drives
- Four internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra160 SCSI SCA 80-pin hard drives, hot-plug, each pair of drives is connected to one separate controller and each drive in each pair is on a seperate channel
- One open bay for removable SCSI media drives — DVD/DDS
External connectors
- Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- 10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45 management network with web console (on management processor card)
- Ultra160 SCSI 68-pin
- Three DB9 male RS232C serial (console, remote console, general purpose)
- Four USB 2.0 ports (optional)
- VGA graphics (optional)
References
Articles
- 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
- HP-UX 11i v1.6, v2 and v3
- Linux for Itanium
- Windows Server 2003 64-bit
- OpenVMS
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000 rate, int |
SPEC2000 rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rx5670 900 MHz 1.5 MB |
673 | 1151 | 7.81 2-CPU: 15.5 4-CPU: 30.4 |
13.3 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 38.7 |
| rx5670 1.0 GHz 3.0 MB |
807 | 1431 | 9.36 2-CPU: 18.6 4-CPU: 36.8 |
16.6 2-CPU: 30.7 4-CPU: 49.3 |
| rx5670 1.3 GHz 3.0 MB |
1066 | 1814 | 12.4 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 48.6 |
21.0 2-CPU: 37.3 4-CPU: 57.2 |
| rx5670 1.5 GHz 6.0 MB |
1312 | 2108 | 15.2 2-CPU: 30.3 4-CPU: 60.0 |
24.5 2-CPU: 42.6 4-CPU: 66.4 |
Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.
Physical dimensions/Power
- 7U (rack-mount) height, 482×7740 mm width/depth
- 72.6 kg maximum weight
- 930W hot-swap power supplies (two standard, optional third)