HP zx2000

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Quick Facts
Introduced	2002
Period	Decline (IV)
CPU	1 Itanium 2 900 MHz-1.5 GHz
Caches	32 KB L1 256 KB L2 1.5-4.0 MB L3
RAM	8 GB
Design	zx1
Drives	0-4 SCSI/ 0-4 IDE
Expansion	1 PCI-X 64/133 4 PCI-x 64/66 1 AGP 4x
Bandwidth	CPU 6.4 GB/s Mem 4.25 GB/s I/O 3.0 GB/s
I/O	GigE SCSI 4 USB 2 serial MGMT

Overview

The HP zx2000 Itanium workstations are closely based on the PA-RISC C8000 workstations build around the same HP zx1 chipset. The system is built in a sleek and quiet tower casing and also available with a rack-mount option. Relative shortly after the zx2000 HP dropped Itanium workstations from its portfolio. The remaining HP-UX/Itanium offerings are IA64 server systems (the Integrity rx).

System

CPU

No.	CPU Type	Clock	L1 (I/D)	L2 (I/D)	L3
1	Itanium 2 McKinley	900 MHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB
1	Itanium 2 Madison	1.4 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB
1	Itanium 2 Madison	1.4 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	4.0 MB
1	Itanium 2 Madison	1.5 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB
1	Itanium 2 Deerfield low-voltage	1.0 GHz	16/16 KB	256 KB	1.5 MB

There could be more processor options.
All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).

Chipset

HP zx1 chipset (same as in some PA-8800/PA-8900 workstations)
- Pluto zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) connects to the processor bus (6.4 GB/s), memory bus (4.25 GB/s) and six I/O channels (aggregate 3.0 GB/s) and contains both memory and cache controllers
- Four zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate bandwidth of 3.0 GB/s on six 0.5 GB/s channels
  1. AGP 4x graphics bus on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
  2. PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0 GB/s
  3. Four PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
  4. Gigabit Ethernet, IDE, USB and audio controllers on PCI 32/33 on one channel — 0.5 GB/s
Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82540)
Two-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller (optional)
Ultra ATA-100 IDE controller (PCI649)
PDH controller
Serial controller, DUART (16550A-compatible)
FPGA controller for ACPI (2.0) and LPC
Baseboard management controller (BMC — IPMI interface)

Buses

Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s
zx1 memory bus, 200 MHz, 4.25 GB/s
Six zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 3.0 GB/s I/O bandwidth
AGP 4x graphics bus on two I/O channels, 1.0 GB/s aggregate
PCI-X 64/133 I/O bus on two I/O channels, 1.0 GB/s aggregate
PCI-X 64/66 I/O bus on one I/O channel, 0.5 GB/s aggregate
PCI 32/33 I/O bus for onboard devices on one I/O channel, 0.5 GB/s aggregate
SCSI-3 Ultra160 (LVD) storage I/O bus (if optional SCSI controller is installed)
UltraATA-100 IDE storage I/O bus

Memory

PC2100 registered ECC DDR266 SDRAM DIMMs
Takes up to 2 GB modules
Four slots
512 MB minimum (2×256 MB)
8 GB maximum (4×2 GB)
4.25 GB/s memory bandwidth

Expansion

One PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slot, full-length
Three PCI-X 64-bit/66 MHz slots, full-length
One PCI-X 64-bit/66 MHz slot, half-length
All PCI slots are 3.3 V
One AGP Pro 4x 32-bit slot, 1.5 V

Drives

Up to two internal 3.5″ bays for either Ultra ATA-100 IDE or Ultra160 SCSI hard drives
Two half-heigth 5.25″ bays for externally accessible Ultra ATA-100 IDE or SCSI (LVD or SE) drives (DVD/CD)

External

TP/RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
Four USB 2.0 ports (two in front, two in rear)
Two Serial RS232C DB9
Four phone jacks (microphone, line-in and line-out) on 16-bit audio card
Optional IEEE-1394 Firewire ports

Operating systems

HP-UX 11i v1.6 and 11i v2
Linux for Itanium
FreeBSD/ia64
OpenVMS (however officially unsupported on this platform)
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003
Windows Server 2008 Itanium-based Editions
Windows Server 2003 Itanium-based Editions

Benchmarks

Model	SPEC2000, int	SPEC2000, fp	SPEC2000 rate, int	SPEC2000 rate, fp
zx2000 900 MHz	668	1086		12.6

Dimensions

Model	Height	Width	Depth	Weight
Tower	502mm	268mm	512mm	25kg
Rack-mounted	4U	482mm	510mm	20kg

References

Manuals

HP Workstation zx2000 - Technical Reference Guide (URL gone)

Pictures

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