HP Integrity rx4610
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2001 |
| Period | Decline (IV) |
| Series | Integrity rx |
| CPU | 2-4 Itanium 733-800 MHz |
| Caches | 32 KB L1 96 KB L2 2.0-4.0 MB L3 |
| RAM | 64 GB |
| Design | zx1 |
| Drives | 2 SCSI 1 IDE 1 FD |
| Expansion | 8 PCI 64/66 2 PCI 64/33 |
| Bandwidth | CPU 2.1 GB/s Mem 4.2 GB/s I/O 2.1 GB/s |
| I/O | 10/100E VGA SCSI 2 USB 2 serial parallel 2 PS/2 |
The Integrity rx4610 were HP’s first-generation Itanium servers based on up to four Merced Itanium processors in an 7U rack-mountable case. The rx4610 offered many I/O and expansion options with ten PCI slots on four PCI buses (attached to 2.1 GB/s I/O bandwidth) and up to 64 GB of main memory but was limited to only two internal SCSI drives.
The rx4610 is based on the Intel Itanium reference
architecture — the 82460GX chipset, which looks like a mix of
PC-style (Frontside Bus to the processor) and PA-RISC (I/O ropes
from the central chipset to PCI converters) platforms.
The other HP system with Merced processors and the 82460GX was the HP i2000 workstation.
Both the i2000 and rx4610 were rather slow and buggy when compared to contemporary
PA-RISC systems.
System architecture
Processors
| No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (Instruction/Data) | L2 (Instruction/Data) | L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-4 | Itanium 1 Merced | 733 MHz | 16/16 KB | 96 KB | 2.0 MB |
| 2-4 | Itanium 1 Merced | 800 MHz | 16/16 KB | 96 KB | 4.0 MB |
L1 and L2 caches are on-die, L3 is off-chip
Chipset
The rx4610 is based on Intel’s 82460GX chipset with four main components:
- 82460GX SAC (System Address Chip) is the central chipset part:
- System bus (FSB) for up to four processors — 2.1 GB/s (the SAC connects to the address and control parts of the FSB)
- Four I/O channels to which the PCI buses attach (via the WXBs/PXB) — each channel is 533 MB/s
- Connection to the SDC
- Address/control access to the main memory
- Three 82460GX WXBs (Wide eXpansion Bridges) which connect the PCI 64/66 buses
via three I/O channels to the SAC
- One I/O channel connects to two PCI 64/66 slots
- One I/O channel connects to three PCI 64/66 slots
- One I/O channel connects to three PCI 64/66 slots and the SCSI controller
- 82460GX PXB (PCI eXpansion Bridge) connects the PCI 64/33 bus and core I/O (Ethernet LAN, PS/2, parallel, serial, IDE, USB, VGA) and the baseboard management controller via one I/O channel to the SAC
- 82460GX SDC (System Data Chip) is the central memory data controller:
- It connects to the data part of the FSB system main bus
- Has a private link to the SAC (PD)
- Connects to the memory subsystem (data transfers, in contrast to the SAC’s Address/control access)
The rest of the chipset is made up of standard (third-party) I/O components:
- Dual-channel Ultra3 SCSI controller
- Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet controller
- ATI Rage 128VR 64-bit SVGA with 16 MB video memory
- Baseboard management controller (BMC) for IPMI, EMP and WoL
- I/O and Firmware Bridge (IFB) communicates to IDE, USB and Super I/O
- ATA-33 IDE controller (on IFB)
- USB controller (on IFB)
- LPC47B27 Super I/O (serial and PS/2 ports controller)
System buses
- System bus, 32bit 133 MHz DDR (
double-pumped
), 2.1 GB/s, ECC-protected - Memory bus, 266 MHz, 4.2 GB/s peak
- 2.1 GB/s aggregate I/O bandwidth with four 533 MB/s I/O channels
- Three PCI 64/66 I/O buses for expansion slots
- PCI 64/33 I/O bus for expansion slots and onboard devices
Memory
- Two memory boards, each supports up to 32 GB of memory
- 72-bit DIMMs
- 32 slots on each memory board
- Up to 1 GB modules
- 1 GB minimum (i.e., one board)
- 64 GB maximum (64×1 GB — 32 modules on two boards)
Expansion slots
- Eight PCI 64-bit/66 MHz slots, full-length, hot-plug, 3.3 V
- Two slots are on one I/O channel
- Three slots are on one I/O channel
- Three slots are on one I/O channel which is shared with the SCSI subsystem
- Two PCI 64-bit/33 MHz slots, full-length, 5.0 V
Storage
- Two internal 3.5″ bays for 1″ height LVD SCA2 SCSI hard drives
- Optional IDE DVD drive in 0.5″ carrier
- Optional IDE floppy drive (LS120) in 0.5″ carrier
External ports
- 10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- VGA graphics
- External SCSI
- Two PS/2 for keyboard and mouse
- Parallel port
- Two 9-pin serial
- Two USB
Operating systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000 int | SPEC2000 fp | SPEC2000 rate int |
SPEC2000 rate fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rx4610 733 MHz 2 MB |
625 | 7.2 2-CPU: 12.7 4-CPU: 20.1 |
||
| rx4610 800 MHz 4 MB |
379 | 701 | 4.4 | 8.1 2-CPU: 14.2 4-CPU: 22.4 |
Dimensions
| Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7U | 444mm | 711mm | 68kg |
References
Manuals
- hp server rx4610 User Guide (URL gone)
- An overview of the Itanium-based hp rx4610 server whitepaper (URL gone)