HP Integrity rx2600 and rx2620
Quick Facts | |
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Introduced | 2003-2004 |
Period | Decline (IV) |
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 |
Bandwidth | CPU 6.4 GB/s Mem 8.5 GB/s I/O 4.0 GB/s |
I/O | GigE 10/100E VGA SCSI 4 USB 2 serial MGMT |
The rx2600 is a rack-mountable HP Itanium workstation based on the zx6000 workstation. Both have a similar system design and can be mounted in 2U in 19″ racks. The rx2600 supports up to two Itanium 2 processors and is targeted for PCI-X devices and thus does not feature the AGP port of the workstation-oriented zx6000.
The rx2600 was later marketed as rx2600-2.
System architecture
Processors
rx2600/rx2600-2
No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (Instruction/Data) | L2 (Instruction/Data) | L3 |
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1-2 | Itanium 2 Deerfield? low-voltage |
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
No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (Instruction/Data) | L2 (Instruction/Data) | L3 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).
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):
- Pluto zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller
and connects the three central system buses:
- Processor bus (6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR)
- Two independent memory buses (each 4.25 GB/s)
- Eight I/O channels (aggregate 4.0 GB/s, via the IOAs, see below)
- Seven Mercury zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots
and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate
bandwidth of 4.0 GB/s on eight 0.5 GB/s channels
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Core I/O: IDE, USB, serial, (rx2600 only: Fast-Ethernet LAN) in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Core I/O: Gigabit Ethernet and Ultra320 SCSI (on rx2620 there are each two Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI controllers) in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
- Management: Ethernet LAN, VGA, serial in a PCI 64/133 slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
The rest are standard third-party I/O chips:
- Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom 5701)
- Two-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (LSI 53C1030)
- Ultra ATA-100 IDE controller (PCI649)
- Serial controller, DUART (16550A-compatible)
- 10/100 Ethernet for management (Intel 82550)
- Management processor card included by default (
ECI card
) — includes serial/ remote management and VGA - Radeon VGA graphics
- EHCI USB controller
- Processor Dependent Hardware (PDH) Controller
- FPGA controller for ACPI (2.0) and LPC
- Baseboard Management Controller for IPMI management interface (the BMC is a ARM7 RISC processor)
System buses
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 4.25 GB/s — aggregate 8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
- Four PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for expansion cards
- Three PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for Core I/O cards (SCSI, networking, etc.)
- Two SCSI-3 Ultra320 (LVD) storage I/O buses
- UltraATA-100 IDE storage I/O bus
Memory
- PC2100 ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
- rx2600: up to 2 GB modules
- rx2620: up to 4 GB modules
- Twelve slots
- DIMMs must be installed in quads
- 1 GB minimum (4×256 MB)
- rx2600: 24 GB maximum (12×2 GB)
- rx2620: 32 GB maximum (8×4 GB — the remaining four slots cannot be used)
- 8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth
Expansion slots
- Four PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots, full-length
- All PCI slots are 3.3 V
Storage
- Three internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra320 SCSI SCA 80-pin hard drives, hot-plug; drives 1 and 2 are on one SCSI channel, drive 3 on the second SCSI channel
- Slimline bay for optional IDE CD or DVD drive
External ports
- rx2600: Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- rx2620: Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- 10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45 management network (on management processor card)
- VGA graphics
- Ultra320 SCSI 68-pin
- 25-pin serial for management processor card, needs break-out cable for three serial ports
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- Two serial RS232C DB9
Operating systems
- rx2600: HP-UX 11i v1.6, 11i v2 and 11i v3
- rx2620: HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3
- Linux for Itanium
- Windows Server 2003 64-bit
- OpenVMS
Benchmarks
Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000 rate, int |
SPEC2000 rate, fp |
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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 |
Dimensions
Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tower | 495mm | 297mm | 673mm | 25kg |
Rack-mounted | 2U | 482mm | 680mm | 22kg |
References
Manuals
- Operation and Maintenance Guide HP Integrity rx2600 server and HP workstation zx6000 (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (September 2003, second edition)
- HPE Integrity rx2620 Server User Service Guide (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (2015)
- Overview of the HP Integrity rx1620, rx2620, and rx4640 Servers (URL gone)
- Overview of the HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers technical whitepaper (URL gone)