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HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440

Quick Facts
Introduced 2004
Period Decline (IV)
Series rp
CPU 1-2 (rp4410)
1-4 (rp4440)
PA-8800/
PA-8900
800-1100 MHz
Caches 3 MB L1
32-64 MB L2
RAM 128 GB
Design zx1
Drives 2 SCSI
1 IDE
Expansion 6 PCI
I/O 2 SCSI
3 serial
2 Gigabit Ethernet
2 USB
100E console

HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440 were some of the last PA-RISC-based HP servers, based on up to four dual-core PA-8800 or PA-8900 processors and HP zx1 chipset, released by HP in 2004.

rp44x0 are technically very similar to HP 9000 rp3410 and rp3440 servers, based on the same zx1 architecture and PA-RISC processors. The systems can be rack-mounted in 4U or be used stand-alone.

Architecture

Processors

HP 9000 rp4410 (rp4410-4) servers supports 2-way multi-processing (SMP), HP 9000 rp4440 (rp4440-8) up to 4-way multi-processing (SMP).

System CPU Speed Cache
HP 9000 rp4410 1-2 PA-8800 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core
800 MHz 3 MB on-chip L1
32 MB off-chip L2
HP 9000 rp4410 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
HP 9000 rp4440 1-4 PA-8800 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core
800 MHz 3 MB on-chip L1
32 MB off-chip L2
HP 9000 rp4440 1-4 PA-8900 PA-RISC 64-bit
dual-core
900 MHz-1.1 GHz 3 MB on-chip L1
64 MB off-chip L2

Chipset

HP 9000 rp44* are based on an HP zx1 Itanium chipset with three main components — the MIO memory and I/O controller, the IOAs I/O adapters and the SMEs scalable memory expanders.

HP 9000 rp4410/rp4440 System Architecture:

         Module 0       Module 1 [only rp4440]
         CPU0 CPU1      CPU2 CPU3
           |___|          |___| 
             |              |
             ================
                    ||
                    || 6.4GB/s
                  __||__
      6.4GB/s    | zx1  |    6.4GB/s    
  ===============| MIO  |===============
  |     |     |  |______|  |     |     |  
 _|_   _|_   _|_    ||    _|_   _|_   _|_ 
|SME| |SME| |SME|   ||   |SME| |SME| |SME|
|___| |___| |___|   ||   |___| |___| |___|
  |     |     |     ||     |     |     |  
 -|-----|-----|-    ||    -|-----|-----|- 
 ---------------    ||    ---------------
 ---------------    ||    ---------------
  Memory banks      ||      Memory banks 
                    ||
                    || 8x0.5GB/s
                    || (4.0GB/s)
                    ||
  ===============================
  ||    ||    |     |     |     |
 1.0    ||   0.5    |     |     |
 GB/s   ||   GB/s   |     |     |
  ||    ||    |     |     |     |
  IOA   IOA  IOA   IOA   IOA   IOA
  ||    ||    |     |     |     |
  PCI   PCI   |    LAN   MGMT   |
  8x    8x    |    SCSI         |
              |                 |
           =======           =======
           |     |           |     |
          (one bus)         (one bus)
           |     |           |     |
          PCI   PCI         PCI   PCI
          4x    4x          4x    4x

   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

System buses

An interesting aspect of the rp4400’s bus setup is that the same 6.4 GB/s processor bus is shared between up to two CPUs on the rp4410 and up to four CPUs on the rp4440.

Expansion

Memory

I/O slots

Storage

I/O ports

Operating systems

Benchmarks

System SPEC2000
int
SPEC2000
fp
SPEC2000
rate int
SPEC2000
rate fp
rp4440
1.0 GHz dualcore
2-core: 18.6
2-CPU/4-core: 37.0
4-CPU/8-core: 73.2
2-core: 19.3
2-CPU/4-core: 34.7
4-CPU/8-core: 55.4

Dimensions

System Height Width Depth Weight
Rack-mounted 4U 440mm 690mm 53kg
Stand-alone 530mm 261mm 695mm 53kg

Documentation

Manuals

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