HP Visualize B2000 and B2600
Quick Facts | |
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Introduced | 2000 |
Period | Maturity (III) |
CPU | 1 PA-8500 (B2000) 1 PA-8600 (B2600) 400-500 MHz |
Cache | 1.5 MB L1 |
RAM | 4 GB |
Design | Astro |
Drives | 2 SCSI 1 FD 1 IDE |
Expansion | 4 PCI |
Bandwidth | ? |
I/O | 100E VGA (B2000) 2 serial parallel 2 USB audio |
These HP Visualize B-Class PA-RISC workstations from 2000 were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the 64-bit PA-8500 or PA-8600 processors with large on-chip L1 caches. The B2000 usually uses the PA-8500 in a small tower case whereas the B2600 is built in a desktop, featuring the PA-8600 CPU. The architecture was a major change from those of its predecessors, the C200 et al, now based on Astro/Elroy, new I/O devices and without the LASI I/O chip and GSC bus. All device I/O now is implemented by PCI buses, human I/O devices are connected to USB ports.
Model | Number | Introduced | Price |
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B2000 | 9000/785 | 2000 | |
C2600 | 9000/785 | 2000 |
System architecture
Processors
Model | CPU | Speed | L1 Cache |
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B2000 | PA-8500 | 300 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
B2600 | PA-8600 | 500 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
Note there were some B2000s shipped with or upgraded to PA-8600 (PCXW+) processors.
Chipset
- Astro memory/Runway controller
- Two 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 (on B2600 the audio card is optional)
- DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
- Symbios Logic 53C896 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
- B2000: Visualize FXe graphics
System buses
- Runway CPU/memory bus
- PCI-32/33 device I/O bus
- PCI-64/33 high-performance I/O bus
- SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD bus main storage I/O
- IDE bus; removable device-I/O
Memory
- 278-pin 120 MHz ECC SD-RAM DIMMs
- Four slots for 128 MB-1 GB modules
- 128 MB to 4 GB supported
Expansion slots
- Two PCI 64-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots (clocked at 66 MHz on B2600)
- Two PCI 32-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
- B2000 I/O slot layout, from top to bottom:
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-32/33, 5 V
- PCI-32/33, 5 V
- B2600 I/O slot layout, from top to bottom:
- PCI-32/33, 5 V, short PCI cards
- PCI-32/33, 5 V, short PCI cards
- PCI-64/33, 5 V, short and full-length cards
- PCI-64/33, 5 V, short and full-length cards
Storage
- Two SCSI 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
- 3.5″ Floppy drive
- IDE half-heigth 5.25″ drive, external accessible
External ports
- B2000: VGA HD15
- Two serial RS232C DB9
- Parallel DB25
- Fast Ethernet RJ45
- Two USB ports for keyboard & mouse
- Four audio jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out) (on B2600 the audio card is optional)
Operating systems
- HP-UX 10.20 (unclear if B2600 supports 10.20), 11.00 and 11i v1
- 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 |
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B2000 | 31.80 | 52.40 | 286 | 472 | 332 | 357 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
B2600 | 403 | 440 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
Dimensions
Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
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B2000 | 445mm | 229mm | 495mm | 21kg |
B2600 | 127mm | 425mm | 457mm | 20kg |
References
Manuals
- B2000 Service Handbook (PDF, 8.8 MB)
- B2000 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- B2600 Technical Reference Manual (PDF, 33.0 MB)
- VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120 KB)