PA-RISC information - since 1999

HP L1500 and L3000 (rp5430/rp5470)

Quick Facts
Introduced 2001
Period Maturity (III)
Series Lettered/rp
CPU 1-2 (L1500)
1-4 (L3000)
PA-8600 64-bit
PA-8700 64-bit
PA-8700+ 64-bit
550-875 MHz
Caches 1.5-2.25 MB
RAM 8 GB (L1500)
16 GB (L3000)
Design Stretch
Drives 5 SCSI
Expansion 8 PCI (L1500)
12 PCI (L3000)
I/O 2 SCSI
3 serial
Fast Ethernet
Ethernet console

The second version HP 9000 L-Class are multi-processor Unix servers based on the Stretch chipset, also used in rp7400 N4000 servers. Released in 2001, a year after the similar L1000 and L2000, they rack-mountable with two or four processors and a large set of I/O options and expandability.

L1500 have the same chassis and mainboards as L3000 with some I/O, memory and processors sockets deactivated in hardware, limiting the L1500 to about half of the L3000 capacity. Both could be upgraded to Itanium 2-based rx5670 servers.

The servers were released right at the time when HP switched from lettered products names to rp-designations, so L1500 and L3000 servers had both, also known as rp5430/rp5470.

Architecture

Processors

HP rp5430 L1500 support up to 2-way and rp5470 L3000 up to 4-way multi-processing (SMP) PA-RISC CPUs. There are several possible 64-bit processor configutations, shipped with the systems or upgraded, designated by the [-5X, -7X, …, -9X] suffix.

System Suffix CPU Speed L1 cache
L1500 rp5430 -5X
-6X
-7X
1-2 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-2 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-2 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
550 MHz
650 MHz
750 MHz
512/1024 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
L3000 rp5470
A6144A
-5X 1-4 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit 550 MHz 512/1024 KB on-chip
L3000 rp5470
A6144B
-5X
-6X
-7X
1-4 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
550 MHz
650 MHz
750 MHz
512/1024 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
L3000 rp5470
A6840A
-5X
-6X
-7X
1-4 PA-8600 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
1-4 PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit
550 MHz
650 MHz
750 MHz
512/1024 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
768/1536 KB on-chip
Possible options (and/or upgradable):
-8X PA-8700 PA-RISC 64-bit 875 MHz 768/1536 KB on-chip

Chipset

Chipset used in L1500, L3000 servers is based on HP Stretch:

System buses

Expansion

Memory

I/O slots

Storage

I/O ports

Operating systems

Benchmarks

System SPEC2000
int
SPEC2000
fp
SPEC2000
rate int
SPEC2000
rate fp
L3000-5X
rp2470
388 376 4.5
2-CPU: 8.9
4-CPU: 17.4
4.4
2-CPU: 8.3
4-CPU: 14.5
L3000-7X
rp2470
581 6.7
2-CPU: 12.9

Dimensions

System Height Width Depth Weight
368mm 482mm 775mm 68kg
Rack-mounted 7U 482mm 775mm 68kg

Documentation

Manuals

Articles

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