HP Visualize B1000, C3000, C3600 (B-Class, C-Class)

Overview
Internals
External connectors
References
Operating systems
Benchmarks
Dimensions

Quick Facts
Introduced	1999-2001
CPU	1 PA-8500/ 1 PA-8600/ 1 PA-8700(+) 300-875 MHz
Cache	1.5-2.25 MB L1
RAM	8 GB
Design	Astro
Drives	2 SCSI 1 FD 1 IDE
Expansion	6 PCI
Bandwidth	?
I/O	100E 2 SCSI 2 serial parallel 2 USB audio

Overview

These HP Visualize B-Class and C-Class workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the 64-bit PA-8500 featuring large on-chip L1 caches. Still part of the HP 9000 range of Unix PA-RISC workstations, they were sold in the late 1990s to early 2000s, and were some of the last PA-RISC desktop workstations.

The C3600 is essentially a C3000 upgraded to a PA-8600 CPU, the C3700 is the same, but upgraded to a PA-8700 CPU. There were additionally various more upgraded models, e.g., the C3650 and the C3750, the former with a faster PA-8700 CPU, the latter with an even faster PA-8700+ CPU. The architecture was a major change from its predecessors with new I/O devices integrated and the LASI I/O chip removed together with the GSC bus. All device I/O is attached to PCI buses, external I/O devices are connected to USB ports.

Model numbers:

B1000 and all C3x00/C3x50 have the 9000/785 model number

Internals

CPU

B1000: PA-8500 300 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3000: PA-8500 400 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3600: PA-8600 552 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3650: PA-8700 625 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3700: PA-8700 750 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
C3750: PA-8700+ 875 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache

Chipset

Astro memory/Runway controller
Four Elroy PCI bridges
National 87560 (SuperI/O), handling USB, RS232, parallel, floppy and IDE
National 87415 IDE controller
National USB controller
Analog Devices AD1889 sound chip
DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
Symbios Logic 53C896 SCSI-3 controller

Buses

Runway CPU/memory bus
PCI-32/33 device I/O bus
PCI-64/33 high-performance device I/O bus
PCI-64/66 high-performance graphics I/O bus
C37x0: PCI-64/100 high-performance graphics I/O bus
SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended external I/O bus
SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD storage I/O bus
IDE removable device I/O bus

Memory

278-pin 120 MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
Takes 128/256/512/1024 MB modules (needs latest firmware revision)
Eight slots
128 MB (1×128) minimum, 8 GB (8×1 GB) maximum

Expansion

One PCI 64-bit/66 MHz, 3.3 V slot (clocked at 100 MHz on C37x0 systems)
Three PCI 64-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
Two PCI 32-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
I/O slot layout (from top to bottom):
1. PCI-64/33, pci0, 5 V
2. PCI-64/66, pci1, 3.3 V (for primary graphics) [on C37x0 systems this is a PCI-64/100 slot]
3. PCI-64/33, pci0, 5 V
4. PCI-64/33, pci2, 5 V (for secondary graphics)
5. PCI-32/33, pci3, 5 V
6. PCI-32/33, pci3, 5 V

Drives

One tray for two 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
One tray for a 3.5″ Floppy drive
One tray for a half-heigth 5.25″ IDE drive, external accessible

External connectors

SCSI-2 50-pin Ultra-Narrow single-ended
SCSI-3 68-pin Ultra2-Wide LVD
Two Serial RS232C DB9
Parallel DB25
Fast Ethernet RJ45
Two USB ports for keyboard & mouse
Four phone jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out)

References

Manuals

B1000/C3x00 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 4.9 MB)
B1000/C3x00 Service Handbook (PDF, 3.2 MB)
VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120 KB)

Operating systems

HP-UX: 10.20, 11.00 and 11i v1 (both only 64-bit releases)
Linux
OpenBSD (32-bit)
NetBSD (32-bit)

Benchmarks

Model	SPEC95, int	SPEC95, fp	SPEC95 rate, int	SPEC95 rate, fp	SPEC2000, int	SPEC2000, fp	SPEC2000 rate, int	SPEC2000 rate, fp
B1000	23.9	39.3	217	378
C3000	31.8	52.4	287	471	313	321
C3600	42.0	64.0	379	576	432	433	5.0	5.0
C3650					508	542	5.9	6.3
C3700					604	576	7.0	6.7
C3750					678	674

Dimensions

Model	Height	Width	Depth	Weight
Desktop	445mm	229mm	495mm	25kg
Rack-mounted	6U	451mm	665mm	25kg

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