HP L1500 and L3000 (rp5430/rp5470)
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2000 |
| Period | Maturity (III) |
| CPU | 1-2 (L1500) 1-4 (L3000) PA-8600/ PA-8700/ PA-8700+ 550-875 MHz |
| Caches | 1.5-2.25 MB L1 |
| RAM | 8 GB (L1500) 16 GB (L3000) |
| Design | Stretch |
| Drives | 5 SCSI |
| Expansion | 8 PCI (L1500) 12 PCI (L3000) |
| Bandwidth | CPU 4.3 GB/s (L1500) CPU 8.6 GB/s (L3000) System 4.3 GB/s Mem 4.3 GB/s I/O 2.1 GB/s (L1500) I/O 3.2 GB/s (L3000) |
| I/O | 2 SCSI 3 serial 100E 100E console |
Overview
The second version of the HP 9000 L-Class Unix servers are multi-processor servers based on the Stretch chipset, also used in the rp7400 N4000 servers. They are similar to tge L1000 and L2000, 7U rack-mountable with up to two or four processors, 8 GB or 16 GB RAM and a large set of I/O options and expandability.
The L1500 has the same chassis and mainboards as the L3000, but with some of I/O, memory and processors sockets deactivated in hardware, limiting the L1500 to about half of the L3000’s capacity. Both could be upgraded with to Itanium 2-based rx5670 servers.
These systems only run 64-bit versions of HP-UX: 11.00 and 11i v1 and v2.
| Model | rp | Introduced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1500 | rp5430 | 2000 | |
| L3000 | rp5470 | 2000 | $39,000 |
System
Processor
The rp5430 (L1500) support up to 2-way and the rp5470 (L3000) up to 4-way multi-processing (SMP). There are several classes of possible processors, both shipped with the systems or later upgraded.
Processor types are indicated with the following suffixes:
- -5X: PA-8600 550 MHz with 512/1024 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- -6X: PA-8700 650 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- -7X: PA-8700 750 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- -8X: PA-8700+ 875 MHz with 768/1536 KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
Both the L1500 and L3000 came with different system boards supporting different processors:
- L1500 (rp5430): up to two CPUs, system boards support all processors from 550 MHz to 750 MHz
- L3000 (rp5470): up to four CPUs, with the processor type depending on the exact model number
[unsure which models support the 875 MHz PA-8700+]:
- A6144A: 550 MHz processors
- A6144B: 550 MHz, 650 MHz and 750 MHz processors
- A6840A: 550 MHz, 650 MHz and 750 MHz processors
- A8328A: 550 MHz, 650 MHz and 750 MHz processors
Chipset
The chipset is based around the Stretch chipset:
- Prelude memory controller, the main crossbar of the system
- DEW Runway converters, attach the CPUs to the system bus
- IKE I/O controller connects the PCI bridges to the system main bus
- rp5430 Seven Elroy PCI bridges, attach PCI buses to the IKE I/O controller
- rp5470 Ten Elroy PCI bridges, attach PCI buses to the IKE I/O controller
- DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
- Symbios Logic 53C875 16-bit Ultra-Wide SCSI-2 controllers
- Symbios Logic 53C896 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
System buses
- Two Itanium system buses, 133 MHz DDR, each 2.1 GB/s peak, combined 4.3 GB/s aggregate.
Both system buses connect to the central Prelude memory controller.
- system bus connects I/O and two CPUs
- system bus connects two CPUs.
- Runway+/Runway DDR CPU buses, each 2.1 GB/s peak. Either two or four buses depending on the number of CPUs, with a combined aggregate 4.3 or 8.6 GB/s
- Two memory bused with combined 4.3 GB/s peak. 133 MHz DDR at 64-bit with ECC
- rp5430
- rp5470
- SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended bus
- Two SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD main storage I/O buses
Memory
- ECC SDRAM DIMMs
- 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB modules supported
- 16 slots
- rp5430 8.0 GB maximum (the system will not boot if more than 8.0 GB of memory is installed)
- rp5470 16.0 GB maximum
Expansion slots
- Two
Twin-Turbo
PCI 64-bit/66 MHz slots, each on an independent PCI bus, each connected via two I/O channels (aggregate 512 MB/s), hot-plug capable - rp5430
- Four
Turbo
PCI 64-bit/66 MHz slots on three PCI buses, each connected via one I/O channel (256 MB/s), three of four slots are hot-plug capable
- Four
- rp5470
- Six
Turbo
PCI 64-bit/66 MHz slots, each on an independent PCI bus, each connected via one I/O channel (256 MB/s), hot-plug capable [two of these slots are not active on the rp5430] - Two PCI 64-bit/33 MHz slots on a shared bus, on one I/O channel (256 MB/s) [these slots are not active on the rp5430]
- Six
- Two PCI 64-bit/33 MHz slots, reserved for LAN/SCSI and GSP (management) cards, on a shared bus, on one I/O channel (256 MB/s)
- All PCI slots are 5 V keyed
- Slot layout (counted from bottom up):
- PCI-64/33, pci0, reserved (LAN/SCSI)
- PCI-64/33, pci0, reserved (GSP)
- PCI-64/33, pci1, shared [not available on rp5430]
- PCI-64/33, pci1, shared [not available on rp5430]
- PCI-64/66, pci2, Turbo, hot-pluggable [not available on rp5430]
- PCI-64/66, pci3, Turbo, hot-pluggable [not available on rp5430]
- PCI-64/66, pci4, Turbo, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci5, Turbo, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci6, Turbo, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci7, Turbo, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci8, Twin-Turbo, hot-pluggable
- PCI-64/66, pci9, Twin-Turbo, hot-pluggable
Storage
- Four trays for 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector, hot-plug
- One tray for a half-heigth 5.25″ 50-pin Ultra-Narrow SE SCSI drive, external accessible
External I/O
- SCSI-2 50-pin Ultra-Narrow single-ended
- 68-pin VHDI SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD
- Three Serial RS232C DB9 (local console, remote console, general purpose)
- Fast Ethernet RJ45
- Fast Ethernet RJ45 Web Console
Operating systems
Benchmarks
| Model | 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
| Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 368mm | 482mm | 775mm | 68kg | |
| Rack-mounted | 7U | 482mm | 775mm | 68kg |
References
Manuals
- User Guide rp5400 Family of Servers (URL gone)
Articles
- hp server rp5400 series entry-level UNIX servers technical whitepaper (URL gone)