HP Visualize J5000, J5600, J7000
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 1999-2000 |
| Period | Maturity (III) |
| Series | Visualize |
| CPU | 1-2 (J5x00)/ 1-4 (J7x00) PA-8500/PA-8600 440-552 MHz |
| Cache | 1.5 MB L1 |
| RAM | 8 GB (J5x00) 16 GB (J7x00) |
| Design | Astro |
| Drives | 5 SCSI 1 FD |
| Expansion | 7 PCI |
| Bandwidth | ? |
| I/O | 100E 2 SCSI 2 serial parallel 2 USB audio |
These HP Visualize J-Class workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with up to two 64-bit PA-8500 processors with large on-chip L1 caches. They are basically the bigger brothers of the C3000/C3600 et al, featuring better expandability.
The architecture was a major change from those of its J-Class predecessors. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip was removed together with the old GSC bus. All devices now attach to PCI buses, I/O devices are connected to USB ports.
An upgrade path to HP Itanium (IPF) was envisaged for Visualize workstations but not offered in the end. These were some of the last PA-RISC workstations offered by HP.
| Model | Number | Introduced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| J5000 | 9000/785 | 1999 | $13,118 (single) $24,313 (dual) |
| J5600 | 9000/785 | 2000 | $21,108 (dual) |
| J7000 | 9000/785 | 1999 | |
| J7600 | 9000/785 | ? |
System architecture
Processors
| Model | CPU | Speed | L1 Cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| J5000 | 1-2 PA-8500 | 440 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
| J5600 | 1-2 PA-8600 | 552 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
| J7000 | 1-4 PA-8500 | 440 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
| J7600 | 1-4 PA-8600 | 552 MHz | 512/1024 KB on-chip |
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 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
System buses
- Runway CPU/memory bus
- PCI-64/33 high-performance device I/O bus
- PCI-64/66 high-performance graphics I/O bus
- SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended bus
- SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD bus main storage I/O
- IDE bus; CD/floppy I/O
Memory
- 278-pin 120 MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
- Takes 256/512/1024 MB modules
- J5000: 8 slots
- J7000: 16 slots
- 256 MB (1×256) minimum, J5000: 8 GB (8×1024) maximum; J7000: 16 GB (16×1024) maximum.
Expansion slots
- Five PCI 64-bit/33 MHz, 5 V slots
- Two PCI 64-bit/66 MHz, 3.3 V slots
- I/O slots layout (from top to bottom):
- EMPTY
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-64/66, 3.3 V
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
- PCI-64/66, 3.3 V
- PCI-64/33, 5 V
Storage
- Four SCSI 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
- 3.5″ Floppy drive
- SCSI half-heigth 5.25″ drive, external accessible
External ports
- 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)
Operating systems
- HP-UX: 10.20 (ACE9912), 11.00 64-bit (ACE9911) 11i v1 64-bit (TCOE)
- Linux
- OpenBSD (32-bit)
- NetBSD (32-bit)
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95 int | SPEC95 fp | SPEC95 rate int |
SPEC95 rate fp |
SPEC2000 int | SPEC2000 fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J5000 | 32.50 | 54.00 | 302 | 486 | ||
| J5000 2-CPU |
579 | 744 | ||||
| J5600 | 42.60 | 62.70 | 384 | 564 | 408 | 392 |
| J5600 2-CPU |
42.6 | 64.7 | 758 | 847 | ||
| J7000 | 32.40 | 54.00 | 302 | 486 | ||
| J7000 2-CPU |
579 | 744 |
References
Manuals
- J5x00/J7x00 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 4.5 MB)
- J5x00/J7x00 Service Handbook (PDF, 4.4 MB)
- VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120 KB)
