HP Visualize J6000, J6700 Workstations

Quick Facts
Introduced 2000-2001
Period Maturity (III)
Series Visualize
CPU 1-2 64-bit
PA-8600
PA8700(+)
552-875 MHz
Cache 1.5-2.25 MB L1
RAM 16 GB
Design Astro
Drives 2 SCSI
1 ATAPI
Expansion 3 PCI
I/O Fast Ethernet
SCSI
2 serial
parallel
2 USB
audio

HP Visualize J6000 and J6700 computers were small HP RISC workstations from the early 2000s aimed at the Unix graphics market, equipped with 64-bit PA-8600 and PA-8700 processors and usually shipped with HP Visualize FX graphics adapters.

© Hewlett Packard 2001

The architecture was a major change from earlier HP Visualize J200. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip and old GSC bus were discarded. All devices now attach to PCI buses, I/O devices to USB.

The J6000 case can be used as desktop or fitted in a 19″ rack 2U. 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.

System

Processors

System CPU Speed L1 cache
HP Visualize J6000 1-2 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit 552 MHz 512/1024 KB on-chip
HP Visualize J6700 1-2 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit 750 MHz 768/1536 KB on-chip
HP Visualize J6750 1-2 PA-8700+ PA-RISC 64-bit 875 MHz 768/1536 KB on-chip

Chipset

The system is built around the HP Astro chipset:

System buses

Expansion

Memory

Expansion cards

Storage

Ports

Operating systems

Pictures

HP Visualize J6000 HP Visualize J6000 HP Visualize J6000 HP Visualize J6700
HP Visualize J6000 and J6700, Thomas Schanz 2013, CC BY-SA 4.0

Performance

PA-RISC SPEC scores of HP 9000 computers
System Processor SPEC95
int/fp		 SPEC95
rate int/fp		 SPEC2000
int/fp		 SPEC2000
rate int/fp
HP Visualize J6000 1 PA-8600 552 MHz
2 PA-8600 552 MHz		 42.60 62.70
758
847		 441 433
9.7
8.0
HP Visualize J6700 1 PA-8700 750 MHz
2 PA-8700 750 MHz		 57.60 85.90 603 581
13.4
10.5
HP Visualize J6750 1 PA-8700+ 875 MHz
2 PA-8700+ 875 MHz		 676 651
14.9
11.5

Compared to other RISC and Unix platforms of the 2000s, PA-RISC was a fast architecture with PA-8700 processors being very strong early-2000s 64-bit RISC processors.

Based on old SPEC2000 archives
System Processor SPEC2000
int		 SPEC2000
fp
HP c8000 PA-8800 1.0 GHz 1001 (est.)
HP zx6000 McKinley 1.0 GHz 807 1422
HP AlphaServer ES80 Alpha 21364 1GHz 689 975
IBM POWER 275 IBM POWER4+ 1GHz 617 862
Sun Fire 280R UltraSPARC III Cu 1GHz 511 688
SGI Origin 3200 MIPS R14000 600MHz 483 499
DELL Power Edge 4400 Pentium III Xeon 1 GHz 437 302
IBM RS/6000 M80 IBM RS64 IV 750MHz 409 359
AlphaStation XP1000 Alpha 21264A 667MHz 403 532
HP i2000 Itanium Merced 800MHz 4MB 365 610
HP Visualize P750C Pentium III 750MHz 325 219
Compaq AlphaServer ES40 Alpha 21264 500MHz 311 382
HP Visualize P500 Intel Pentium III 500MHz 231 191

Documentation

Most HP documentation is only available at archive.org and other archives, with most official sources, articles and journals having disappeared in the 2010s.

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