HP L1000 and L2000 (rp5400/rp5450)
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 1999 |
| CPU | 1-2 (L1000) 1-4 (L2000) PA-8500/ PA-8600 360-550 MHz |
| Caches | 1.5 MB L1 |
| RAM | 8 GB (L1000) 16 GB (L2000) |
| Design | Astro |
| Drives | 5 SCSI |
| Expansion | 8 PCI (L1000) 12 PCI (L2000) |
| Bandwidth | CPU 1.4 GB/s Mem 1.4 GB/s I/O 2.1 GB/s |
| I/O | 2 SCSI 2 serial 100E 10E console |
Overview
These HP 9000 L-Class L1000 and L2000 are two or four-way multi-processor PA-RISC servers for rack-mounting, 7U in height. They are based on 64-bit processors, and a rather conservative system architecture with an Astro/Elroy system design used in many HP Visualize workstations, such as B2000, C3000 and C3600. As with other HP 9000 servers of the late-1990s, the L-Class were renamed under the rp server moniker, but still part of the HP 9000 series. Their L1500 and L3000 sucessors used a completely different system architecture.
The L1000 and L2000 could be upgraded with a board-swap (mainboard, processors, etc.) to the Itanium 2-based rx5670 servers.
| Model | rp | Introduced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1000 | rp5400 | 1999 | $16,000 |
| L2000 | rp5450 | 1999 | $21,000 |
Internals
CPU
The L1000/rp5400 systems support up to 2-way and the L2000/rp5450 up to 4-way SMP. The following table lists the various suffixes denoting the different theoretically possible CPU-configurations. Upgrading from one configuration to another could require the replacement of other parts besides the processor, e.g., the mainboard or power supply.
- -36: PA-8500 360 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- -44: PA-8500 440 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- -5X: PA-8600 550 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
Both the L1000 and L2000 came with two different system boards (A and B), which supported different types of processors.
- L1000 (rp5400): up to two CPUs, with the processor type depending on the exact model number:
- A5576A: 360 MHz and 440 MHz processors
- A5576B: 360 MHz, 440 MHz and 550 MHz processors
- L2000 (rp5450): up to four CPUs, with the processor type depending on the exact model number:
- A5191A: 360 MHz and 440 MHz processors
- A5191B: 360 MHz, 440 MHz and 550 MHz processors
Chipset
- Astro memory/Runway controller, connects the memory, CPU bus and I/O
- Eight Elroy PCI bridges
- Two HP Diva Serial [GSP] Multiport UARTs
- DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
- Two Symbios Logic 53C875 16-bit Ultra-Wide SCSI-2 controllers
- Symbios Logic 53C896 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
Buses
- Runway CPU bus, 82.5 MHz with 1.36 GB/s bandwidth for up to four CPUs
- Memory bus, 1.36 GB/s
- Eight I/O data channels, each 133 MHz 256 MB/s — 2.1 GB/s aggregate
- Two PCI-64/33 I/O buses
- Six PCI-64/66 I/O buses
- SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended bus
- Two SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD main storage I/O buses
Memory
- ECC SDRAM DIMMs
- Take 256 MB/512 MB modules
- 16 slots (8 of these slots are disabled on L1000s, namely slots 4a/b, 5a/b, 6a/b and 7a/b)
- 256 MB (1×256) minimum, L1000: 8 GB (8×1 GB) maximum; L2000: 16 GB (16×1 GB) maximum.
Expansion
- Six PCI 64-bit/33 MHz slots on two independent buses:
- pci0: Slots 1 and 2 are reserved for the Core I/O cards
- pci1: Slots 3, 4, 5 and 6
- All of the above slots are not hot-plug capable
- Six PCI 64-bit/66 MHz slots, each on an independent bus. These are hot-plug capable.
- On L1000s only the slots 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are usable!
- Slot layout (from bottom to top):
- PCI-64/33, pci0, reserved for core I/O
- PCI-64/33, pci0, reserved for core I/O
- PCI-64/33, pci1
- PCI-64/33, pci1
- PCI-64/33, pci1
- PCI-64/33, pci1
- PCI-64/66, pci2, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci3, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci4, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci5, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci6, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci7, hot-pluggable
Drives
- Four trays for each one 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drive with 80-pin SCA connector
- One tray for a half-heigth 5.25″ 50-pin Ultra-Narrow SE SCSI drive, external accessible
External connectors
- SCSI-2 50-pin Ultra-Narrow single-ended
- 68-pin VHDI SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD
- Serial RS232C DB9
- Fast Ethernet RJ45
- Ethernet RJ45 Web Console
References
Manuals
- rp5400 User Guide (URL gone)
Pictures
Operating systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95, int | SPEC95, fp | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2000-44 | 33.70 | 47.20 | ? | ? |
Dimensions
| Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 368mm | 482mm | 774mm | 68kg | |
| Rack-mounted | 7U | 482mm | 774mm | 68kg |