HP Integrity rx5670

Overview
Internals
External Connectors
References
Operating Systems
Benchmarks
Physical dimensions/Power

Overview

Time of introduction: 2002-2003
Discontinued:

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 also based on HP’s zx1 Itanium chipset. PA-RISC-based 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-based rx5670s (applies to HP rp5400/rp5450 (L1000/L2000) and HP rp5430/rp5470 (L1500/L3000)).

Prices at time of introduction: $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	1.3GHz	16/16KB	256KB	3.0MB
1-4	Itanium 2 Madison	1.3GHz	16/16KB	256KB	6.0MB

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

Chipset

The systems are 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):

zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller and connects the three central system buses:
1. Processor bus (6.4GB/s at 200MHz DDR)
2. Two independent memory buses (each 6.4GB/s with six SMEs)
3. Eight I/O channels (aggregate 4.0GB/s, via the IOAs, see below)
The zx1 MIO also contains both memory and cache controllers.
Twelve zx1 SMEs (scalable memory expanders), six on each DIMM/memory carrier board, attach to two independent zx1 memory buses (each 6.4GB/s)
Eight zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate bandwidth of 4.0GB/s on eight 0.5GB/s channels
1. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
2. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
3. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
4. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5GB/s
5. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5GB/s
6. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5GB/s
7. One PCI 64/66 slot for Gigabit Ethernet and one SCSI controller (Core I/O) on one channel — 0.5GB/s
8. 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) — 0.5GB/s

The I/O connectivity part of the chipset is made up of 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 6.4GB/s at 200MHz DDR
Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266MHz, each 6.4GB/s — aggregate 12.8GB/s memory bandwidth
Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0GB/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 2GB modules
One or two 24-DIMM memory carrier boards
DIMMs must be installed in quads
1GB minimum (4×256MB)
96GB maximum with two 24-DIMM boards (48×2GB)
12.8GB/s memory bandwidth

Expansion

Three PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz slots
Six PCI-X 64-bit/66MHz slots
Two PCI slots preloaded with core I/O cards
One PCI 64/33MHz 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

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 900MHz 1.5MB	673	1151	7.81 2-CPU: 15.5 4-CPU: 30.4	13.3 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 38.7
rx5670 1.0GHz 3.0MB	807	1431	9.36 2-CPU: 18.6 4-CPU: 36.8	16.6 2-CPU: 30.7 4-CPU: 49.3
rx5670 1.3GHz 3.0MB	1066	1814	12.4 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 48.6	21.0 2-CPU: 37.3 4-CPU: 57.2
rx5670 1.5GHz 6.0MB	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)

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