HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440
Quick Facts | |
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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 |
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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.
- Pluto is the zx1 MIO memory and I/O controller
and connects the system buses:
- Processor bus of 6.4 GB/s for one or two dual-CPU modules
- Two independent memory buses with each 6.4 GB/s
- Eight I/O channels with aggregate 4.0 GB/s
- Six zx1 SMEs scalable memory expanders attach to two independent zx1 memory buses
- Six Mercury zx1 IOAs I/O adapters connect the PCI-X slots
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0 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
- Core I/O adapters like SCSI, Ethernet etc. on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
- Dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller
- Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
- USB2.0 controller
- IDE controller
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.
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 200 MHz, each 6.4 GB/s
- Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
- Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O buses
- SCSI-3 Ultra320 LVD storage I/O bus
- IDE secondary storage I/O bus
Expansion
Memory
- PC2100 parity ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
- 16- or 32-DIMM carrier board
- 1 GB minimum memory
- 128 GB maximum memory
- 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
- 105ns memory latency
I/O slots
- Two PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots, each on an independent bus, hot-plug
- Four PCI-X 64-bit/66 MHz slots, on two shared buses, hot-plug
- All PCI slots are 3.3 V
Storage
- Two bays for 3.5″ Ultra320 LVD SCSI hard drives, hot-plug
- Slimline bay for optional IDE CD or DVD drive
I/O ports
- Three serial RS232C DB9 for local console, remote console, general purpose
- Two USB 2.0 ports
- Two Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- Two Ultra320 SCSI ports
- HP Integrated Lights Out iLO system management card with Fast-Ethernet Web console
Operating systems
- HP-UX, the original HP Unix shipped with it
- HP-UX 11i v3 in 64-bit mode
- HP-UX 11i v2 in 64-bit mode
- HP-UX 11i v1 in 64-bit mode, in EOE, FOE, MCOE versions (December 2003- December 2006)
- PA-RISC Linux (possible)
Benchmarks
System | SPEC2000 int |
SPEC2000 fp |
SPEC2000 rate int |
SPEC2000 rate fp |
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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 |
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Rack-mounted | 4U | 440mm | 690mm | 53kg |
Stand-alone | 530mm | 261mm | 695mm | 53kg |
Documentation
Manuals
- User Service Guide HP 9000 rp4410 and HP 9000 rp4440 (.pdf, 17 MB) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (2009, fifth edition, A9950-96011)
- Overview of the HP 9000 rp3410-2, rp3440-4, rp4410-4, and rp4440-8 Servers (URL gone)