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HP Integrity rx2600 and rx2620

Quick Facts
Introduced 2003-2004
Period Decline (IV)
Series Integrity rx
CPU 1-2 Itanium 2
1.0-1.6 GHz
Caches 32 KB L1
256 KB-1.25 MB L2
1.5-18 MB L3
RAM 24 GB (rx2600)
32 GB (rx2620)
Design zx1
Drives 3 SCSI
1 IDE
Expansion 4 PCI-X 64/133
I/O Gigabit Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
VGA
SCSI
4 USB
2 serial
MGMT

HP Integrity rx2600 were rack-mountable HP Itanium workstations and servers based on the HP zx6000 workstation. Released between 2003 and 2004, rx2600 were marketed as entry-lever servers for technical and commercial applications with superior java and web benchmark as well leading integer and floating point performance.

HP rx2600
© Hewlett Packard 2004

HP rx2600 servers and zx6000 workstations were closely related, with some minor technical differences in system design – cooling, AGP slots, management ports. Both have a similar system design and can be mounted either 19″ racks (2U) or placed in a desktop tower-like enclosure

HP rx2600
© Hewlett Packard 2004

Integrity rx2600 supports up to two Itanium 2 processors with up to 1.5 GHz (Madison processor) and is targeted for PCI-X devices and thus does not feature the AGP port of the workstation-oriented zx6000. System design was based on HP zx1 chipset which was used for Itanium and PA-RISC computers in the early 2000s.

The rx2600 was later marketed as rx2600-2 and superseded by the rx2620, which supported newer processors.

System architecture

Processors

All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).
CPU Speed L1 Cache L2 Cache L3 Cache
rx2600 and rx2600-2
1-2 Itanium 2 Deerfield? 1.0 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 1.5 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Madison 1.3 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 3.0 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Madison 1.4 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 1.5 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Madison 1.5 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 6.0 MB
rx2620
1-2 Itanium 2 Madison? 1.3 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 3.0 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Madison? 1.6 GHz 16/16 KB 256 KB 3.0 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Montecito
dual-core		 1.4 GHz 16/16 KB 1024/256 KB 12 MB
1-2 Itanium 2 Montecito
dual-core		 1.6 GHz 16/16 KB 1024/256 KB 18 MB

Chipset

The systems are based on HP’s zx1 chipset, which consists of two main components — the MIO (memory and I/O controller) and the IOAs (I/O adapters):

HP rx2600 zx2
© Hewlett Packard 2004

System buses

Memory

Expansion slots

HP rx2600 I/O
© Hewlett Packard 2004

Storage

External ports

Operating systems

Pictures

HP rx2600 HP rx2600 HP rx2600 and zx6000
HP rx2600, Thomas Schanz 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0
HP rx2600
HP rx2600 models © Hewlett Packard 2004

Dimensions

System Height Width Depth Weight
Tower 495mm 297mm 673mm 25kg
Rack-mounted 2U 482mm 680mm 22kg

Benchmarks

System Processor SPEC2000
int		 SPEC2000
fp		 SPEC2000
rate int		 SPEC2000
rate fp
rx2600
900 MHz 1.5 MB		 674 1151 7.8
2-CPU: 15.5
2-CPU:
rx2600
1.0 GHz 3.0 MB		 810 1427 9.4
2-CPU: 18.7
2-CPU:
rx2600
1.3 GHz 3.0 MB		 1073 1808 12.4
2-CPU: 24.8
2-CPU:
rx2600
1.5 GHz 6.0 MB		 1408 2119 15.3
2-CPU: 30.5
2-CPU:
rx2620-2
1.3Hz 3.0 MB		 1170 2229 13.6
2-CPU: 26.9		 15.9
2-CPU: 27.7
rx2620-2
1.6Hz 3.0 MB		 1408 2553 16.3
2-CPU: 32.3		 29.6
2-CPU: 48.5
rx2620-2
1.6Hz 6.0 MB		 1535 2675 17.8
2-CPU: 35.5		 31.0
2-CPU: 51.5

Comparison to SPEC benchmark data from other contemporary Unix workstations:

Based on old SPEC2000 archives
System Processor SPEC2000
int		 SPEC2000
fp
i2000 Itanium Merced 800 MHz 365 610
C3750 PA-RISC PA-8700+ 875 MHz 678 674
zx6000 McKinley 1.0 GHz 807 1422
c8000 PA-RISC PA-8800 1.0 GHz 1001 (est.)
AMD Athlon XP 2.2GHz 1080 873
HP ProLiant Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 1249 1081
Intel Pentium 4 520 2.8GHz 1290
zx6000 Madison 1.5 GHz 1315 2106
AMD Opteron 250 2.4GHz 1619 1652
Sun Ultra 40 AMD Opteron 256 3.0GHz 1957

Documentation

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