HP L1000 and L2000 (rp5400/rp5450) Servers

Quick Facts
Introduced 2000
Period Maturity (III)
Series Lettered/rp
CPU 1-2 (L1000)
1-4 (L2000)
PA-8500 64-bit
PA-8600 64-bit
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)
I/O 2 SCSI
2 serial
Fast Ethernet
Ethernet console

HP 9000 L-Class L1000 and L2000 are two or four-way multi-processor PA-RISC servers for rack-mounting, in 7U. They are based on 64-bit processors and a conservative PA-RISC architecture with HP Astro/Elroy system design, also used in HP Visualize workstations like B2000, C3000 and C3600.

HP L-Class
© Hewlett Packard 2000

L-Class from 2000 were billed by HP as Smart, Simple, and Stress-free servers for Internet-Age Computing, e-commerce in the dot-com boom. They were slightly smaller than N4000 servers but still had a scalable architecture and Unparalleled Internet manageability for The Internet edge.

As with other HP 9000 servers of the late-1990s, L-Class were renamed rp but remained 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 to Itanium 2-based rx5670 servers.

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System

Processors

HP L1000/rp5400 servers support up to 2-way multiprocessing, L2000/rp5450 up to 4-way. Processors are designated by the [-36, -44, -5X] suffix. There are two different system boards (A and B) which supported different types of processors.

System Suffix CPU Speed L1 Cache
L1000 rp5400
A5576A		 -36
-44		 1-2 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-2 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit		 360 MHz
440 MHz		 512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip
L1000 rp5400
A5576B		 -36
-44
-5X		 1-2 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-2 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-2 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit		 360 MHz
440 MHz
550 MHz		 512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip
L2000 rp5450
A5191A		 -36
-44		 1-4 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit		 360 MHz
440 MHz		 512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip
L2000 rp5450
A5191B		 -36
-44
-5X		 1-4 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8500 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit		 360 MHz
440 MHz
550 MHz		 512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip
512/1024 KB on-chip

Upgrading processors required replacing other parts like mainboard or PSU.

Chipset

System buses

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Expansion

Memory

Expansion cards

Storage

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Ports

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Operating systems

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Pictures

HP L2000 HP C8000 HP L2000
HP L2000 © Dennis Grevenstein

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Performance

Compared to other RISC and Unix platforms of the late-1990s, PA-RISC was a fast architecture with PA-8500 and PA-8600 being very strong early-2000s 64-bit RISC processors.

PA-RISC SPEC scores of HP 9000 computers
System Processor SPEC95
int		 SPEC95
fp		 SPEC95
rate int
L2000-44 1 PA-8500 440 MHz
2 PA-8500 440 MHz
4 PA-8500 440 MHz		 33.70 47.20
602
1186
Based on old SPEC95rate archives
System Processor SPEC95
int		 SPEC95
fp		 SPEC95
rate int
Convex SPP2000 16 PA-8000 180 MHz 1307
HP 9000 T600 12 PA-8000 180 MHz 1192
DG AViiON AV 20000 16 Pentium Pro 200 1007
Siemens RM600 720 24 R4400 250 MHz 921
HP 9000 K580 6 PA-8200 240 MHz 17 28 902
IBM RS/6000 H80 4 IBM RS64-III 450 21 25 783
DEC AlphaServer 8400 12 Alpha 21164 300 33 767
Convex SPP1600 16 PA-7200 120 MHz 541
HP Visualize C3600 1 PA-8600 552 MHz 42 64 379
HP 9000 D380 2 PA-8000 180 MHz 12 17 210

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Dimensions

HP 9000 L1000 and L2000 servers were 7U in height for rack-mounting, with a weight of 68 kg (150 lb). They have a height of 368 mm, width of 482 mm and depth of 774 mm.

System Height Width Depth Weight
368mm 482mm 774mm 68kg
Rack-mounted 7U 482mm 774mm 68kg

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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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