HP 9000 rp3410 and rp3440

Quick Facts
Introduced	2004
Period	Decline (IV)
CPU	1 (rp3410) 1-2 (rp3440) PA-8800/ PA-8900 800-1100 MHz
Caches	3 MB L1 32-64 MB L2
RAM	6 GB (rp3410) 32 GB (rp3440)
Design	zx1
Drives	3 SCSI 1 IDE
Expansion	2 PCI (rp3410) 4 PCI (rp3410)
Bandwidth	CPU 6.4 GB/s Mem 8.5 GB/s I/O 3 GB/s (rp3410) I/O 4 GB/s (rp3440)
I/O	SCSI 3 serial GigE 2 USB 100E console

The HP 9000 rp3410 and rp3440 were some of the last PA-RISC-based HP servers, in a 2U rack-mountable case. They use dual-core PA-8800 or PA-8900 processors in a HP zx1 system design that was also used for Itanium 2 systems. There is an upgrade path to Intel/HP IA64 Itanium 2 processors. The HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440 servers are technically similar with more computing and I/O possibilities.

rp	Introduced	Price
rp3410 rp3410-2	2004	$4,000
rp3440 rp3440-4	2004	$7,000

System architecture

Processors

The rp3410 (rp3410-2) supports a single processor, the rp3440 (rp3440-4) up to 2-way multi-processing (SMP).

rp3410:
- 1 dual-core PA-8800 800 MHz with 3 MB L1 and 32 MB off-chip L2 cache
rp3440:
- 1 or 2 dual-core PA-8800 900 MHz-1.0 GHz with 3 MB L1 and 32 MB off-chip L2 cache
- 1 or 2 dual-core PA-8900 800 MHz-1.1 GHz with 3 MB L1 and 64 MB off-chip L2 cache
On some entry-level versions only one of the two CPU cores per processor is active
An upgrade path to HP Itanium 2 processors was available

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. The zx1 is almost a crossbar chipset: the zx1 memory controller acts as the crossbar switch which links processors, memory and I/O together.

Pluto is the zx1 memory and I/O controller and connects the central system buses:
1. Processor bus of 6.4 GB/s for one or two CPUs
2. Two independent memory buses, each 4.25 GB/s
3. I/O channels, six on rp3410 with 3.0 GB/s and eight on rp3440 with 4.0 GB/s
The MIO also contains both memory and cache controllers.
rp3410: Five Mercury I/O adapters IOAs for PCI-X slots
>rp3440: Seven Mercury I/O adapters IOAs for PCI-X slots
PCI-X slots and I/O 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. rp3440 PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
4. rp3440 PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
5. Management LAN and serial ports (iLO card) on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
6. Ultra160 SCSI and Gigabit Ethernet controllers on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
7. IDE and USB controllers one channel — 0.5 GB/s
Dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller, LSI Logic 53C1030
Gigabit Ethernet controller, Broadcom Tigon 3
IDE controller, PCI649
USB2.0 controller

» View a system-level illustration (ASCII) of the system/bus architecture.

System buses

Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus, 128-bit, 200 MHz, 6.4 GB/s
Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 4.25 GB/s, aggregate 8.5 GB/s
rp3410:
- Six zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 3.0 GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
rp3440:
- Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
- Four PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
SCSI-3 Ultra160 LVD storage I/O bus
IDE secondary storage I/O bus

Memory

PC2100 DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
Twelve slots
1 GB minimum memory
rp3410: 6 GB maximum memory
rp3440: 32 GB maximum memory
8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth
80ns memory latency

Expansion slots

One PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slot with 1 GB/s data rate
rp3410: One PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slot with 512 MB/s data rate
rp3440: Three PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots with 512 MB/s data rate
All PCI slots are 3.3 V

Storage

Three 3.5″ Ultra160 LVD SCSI hard drives, 1″ height, 68-pin
Slimline IDE CD or DVD drive

External ports

Three serial RS232C DB9 for local console, remote console, general purpose
Four USB 2.0 ports
TP/RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
HP Integrated Lights Out iLO system management card with Fast-Ethernet Web console
Ultra160 SCSI 68-pin

Operating systems

HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3
Linux

Benchmarks

Model	SPEC2000, int	SPEC2000, fp	SPEC2000 rate, int	SPEC2000 rate, fp
rp3440 1.0 GHz dualcore			2-core: 18.7 2-CPU/4-core: 37.1	2-core: 19.2 2-CPU/4-core: 32.6

Dimensions

Model	Height	Width	Depth	Weight
Rack-mounted	2U	483mm	680mm	23kg
Stand-alone	495mm	295mm	675mm	26kg

References

Manuals

User Service Guide HP 9000 rp3410 and HP 9000 rp3440 (.pdf) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (2010, sixth edition)
Overview of the HP 9000 rp3410-2, rp3440-4, rp4410-4, and rp4440-8 Servers URL gone)

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