HP 9000 rp3410 and rp3440 Servers

Quick Facts
Introduced 2004
Period Decline (IV)
Series rp
CPU 1-2
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)
I/O SCSI
3 serial
Gigabit Ethernet
2 USB
Fast Ethernet cons.

HP 9000 rp3410 and rp3440 were some of the last PA-RISC-based HP servers, released in 2004 in a 2U rack-mountable case for data centers.

rp34x0 use dual-core PA-8800 or PA-8900 PA-RISC processors in a HP zx1 (Itanium) system design that was also used for Itanium 2 systems. There was an upgrade path to Intel/HP IA64 Itanium 2 processors by swapping CPUs and boards.

HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440 servers are technically similar with more computing and I/O options.

HP dropped PA-RISC from its technical computer portfolio soon after PA-RISC rp, replacing it with Itanium.

System

Processors

System CPU Speed Cache
HP 9000 rp3410 PA-8800 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core		 800 MHz 3 MB on-chip L1
32 MB off-chip L2
HP 9000 rp3440 1-2 PA-8800 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core		 900 MHz-1.0 GHz 3 MB on-chip L1
32 MB off-chip L2
HP 9000 rp3440 1-2 PA-8900 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core		 900 MHz-1.1 GHz 3 MB on-chip L1
64 MB off-chip L2

Chipset

The systems are based on the HP zx1 chipset with two main components, the memory and I/O controller (MIO) and the I/O adapters (IOAs). zx1 is almost a crossbar chipset: the memory controller acts as the crossbar switch which links processors, memory and I/O. 

               CPU0    CPU1 [only rp3440]
                |       |
                |       |
                =========
                    ||
                    || 6.4GB/s
  |||||           __||__           |||||
  ||||| 4.25GB/s | zx1  | 4.25GB/s |||||
  |||||==========| MIO  |==========|||||
  |||||          |______|          |||||
  |||||             ||             |||||
  Memory            ||             Memory
                    ||
                    || 8x0.5GB/s rp3440
                    || (4.0GB/s)
                    ||
                    || 6x0.5GB/s rp3410
                    || (3.0GB/s)
                    ||
  ====================================
  ||    |    |     |     |     |     | 
 1.0   0.5   |     |     |     |     |
 GB/s  GB/s  |     |     |     |     |
  ||    |    |     |     |     |     |
  IOA  IOA  IOA   IOA   IOA   IOA   IOA
  ||    |    |     |     |     |     |
  PCI  PCI  MGMT  LAN   IDE   PCI   PCI 
  8x   4x         SCSI  USB   8x    8x
                             [both slots
                              only rp3440]

   PCI slots/buses:
   PCI 8x -- PCI 64-bit/133MHz (1066MB/s)
   PCI 4x -- PCI 64-bit/66MHz   (533MB/s)

   IOA connections/downlinks:
   ||   two channels -- 1.0GB/s
   |    one channel  -- 0.5GB/s

HP 9000 rp3410/rp3440 System Architecture

System buses

Expansion

Memory

Expansion cards

Storage

Ports

Operating systems

Performance

PA-RISC SPEC scores of HP 9000 computers
System 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

Compared to other RISC and Unix platforms of the 1990s, PA-RISC was a fast architecture with PA-8800 and PA-8900 processors being very fast early 2000s 64-bit RISC processors.

Dimensions

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

Documentation

Most HP documentation is only available at archive.org and other archives, with most official sources, articles and journals having disappeared in the 2010s.

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