HP Integrity rx5670 Servers

Quick Facts
Introduced	2003
Period	Decline (IV)
Series	Integrity rx
CPU	1-4 Itanium 2 1.3 GHz
Caches	32 KB L1 256 KB 3-6 MB L3
RAM	96 GB
Design	zx1
Drives	5 SCSI
Expansion	12 PCI 64
I/O	Gigabit Ethernet Fast Ethernet VGA SCSI 4 USB 2 serial

System
Expansion
Ports
Operating systems
Performance
Dimensions
Documentation

The HP Integrity rx5670 are rack-mountable multi-processor Itanium 2 servers with up to four processors. Closely matching the rx4640 system architecture, the rx5670 is based on HP’s zx1 Itanium chipset. PA-RISC L-Class servers (built into the same system/chassis) could be upgraded by a board-swap — changing the main system board, processors and support hardware — to Itanium 2 rx5670s (applies to HP rp5400/rp5450 (L1000/L2000) and HP rp5430/rp5470 (L1500/L3000)).

System

Processors

All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).
CPU	Speed	L1 Cache	L2 Cache	L3 Cache
1-4 Itanium 2 Madison	1.3 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	3.0 MB
1-4 Itanium 2 Madison	1.3 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	6.0 MB

All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).

Chipset

The rx5670 is based on HP’s zx1 chipset, which consists of three main components — the MIO (memory and I/O controller), the IOAs (I/O adapters) and the SMEs (scalable memory expanders):

Pluto zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller and connects the three central system buses:
1. Processor bus (6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR)
2. Two independent memory buses (each 6.4 GB/s with six SMEs)
3. Eight I/O channels (aggregate 4.0 GB/s, via the IOAs, see below)
The zx1 MIO also contains both memory and cache controllers.
Twelve zx1 SMEs (scalable memory expanders), six on each DIMM/memory carrier board, attach to two independent zx1 memory buses (each 6.4 GB/s)
Eight 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
1. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
2. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
3. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
4. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
5. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
6. Two PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
7. One PCI 64/66 slot for Gigabit Ethernet and one SCSI controller (Core I/O) on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
8. One PCI 64/66 slot for management LAN, serial and one SCSI controller (Core I/O); and
  one PCI 64/33 slot for optional graphics/USB on one channel (with the other slot) — 0.5 GB/s

The rest are standard third-party I/O chips, implemented on Core I/O cards in two or three PCI slots

Dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI controllers (LSI 53C1010)
SCSI controller (LSI 53C896)
Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom 5701)
Serial controller, DUART (16550A-compatible)
IBM PCI-X to PCI-X bridge
Diva remote management processor — serial and LAN
Optional Radeon VGA graphics (with USB on one card)
Optional EHCI USB controller

System buses

Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s at 200 MHz DDR
Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 6.4 GB/s — aggregate 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth
Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0 GB/s
Three PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses for expansions slots
Three PCI-X 64/66 I/O buses for expansion slots
PCI-X 64/66 I/O bus for Core I/O expansion slots
PCI 64/33 I/O bus for graphics/USB slot
Two SCSI-3 Ultra160 (LVD) storage I/O buses

Expansion

Memory

PC2100 ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
Takes up to 2 GB modules
One or two 24-DIMM memory carrier boards
DIMMs must be installed in quads
1 GB minimum (4×256 MB)
96 GB maximum with two 24-DIMM boards (48×2 GB)
12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth

Expansion cards

Three PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots
Six PCI-X 64-bit/66 MHz slots
Two PCI slots preloaded with core I/O cards
One PCI 64/33 MHz slot for graphics/USB card (optional)

Storage

Four internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra160 SCSI SCA 80-pin hard drives, hot-plug, each pair of drives is connected to one separate controller and each drive in each pair is on a seperate channel
One open bay for removable SCSI media drives — DVD/DDS

Ports

Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45 management network with web console (on management processor card)
Ultra160 SCSI 68-pin
Three serial RS232C DB9 (console, remote console, general purpose)
Four USB 2.0 ports (optional)
VGA graphics (optional)

Operating systems

HP-UX 11i v1.6, 11i v2 and 11i v3
Linux for Itanium
Windows Server 2003 64-bit
OpenVMS

Performance

PA-RISC SPEC scores of HP 9000 computers
System	SPEC2000 int	SPEC2000 fp	SPEC2000 rate int	SPEC2000 rate fp
rx5670 900 MHz 1.5 MB	673	1151	7.81 2-CPU: 15.5 4-CPU: 30.4	13.3 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 38.7
rx5670 1.0 GHz 3.0 MB	807	1431	9.36 2-CPU: 18.6 4-CPU: 36.8	16.6 2-CPU: 30.7 4-CPU: 49.3
rx5670 1.3 GHz 3.0 MB	1066	1814	12.4 2-CPU: 24.5 4-CPU: 48.6	21.0 2-CPU: 37.3 4-CPU: 57.2
rx5670 1.5 GHz 6.0 MB	1312	2108	15.2 2-CPU: 30.3 4-CPU: 60.0	24.5 2-CPU: 42.6 4-CPU: 66.4

Dimensions

Height	Width	Depth	Weight
7U	482mm	740mm	72kg

Documentation

Most Itanium documentation has disappeared from official sites since the 2010s.

Overview of the HP Integrity rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers technical whitepaper (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (October 2003, first edition, 5982-1595EN)