HP zx2000
| 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 |
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 architecture
Processors
| CPU | Speed | L1 Cache | L2 Cache | L3 Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itanium 2 McKinley | 900 MHz | 16/16 KB on-die | 256 KB on-die | 1.5 MB on-die |
| Itanium 2 Madison | 1.4 GHz | 16/16 KB on-die | 256 KB on-die | 1.5 MB on-die |
| Itanium 2 Madison | 1.4 GHz | 16/16 KB on-die | 256 KB on-die | 1.5 MB on-die |
| Itanium 2 Madison | 1.5 GHz | 16/16 KB on-die | 256 KB on-die | 1.5 MB on-die |
| Itanium 2 Deerfield | 1.0 GHz | 16/16 KB on-die | 256 KB on-die | 1.5 MB on-die |
There might be more processor options.
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, memory bus and six I/O channels. Contains memory and cache controllers.
- Four zx1 IOA I/O adapters connect the PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO on six channels:
- AGP 4x graphics bus on two channels: 1.0 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels: 1.0 GB/s
- Four PCI-X 64/66 I/O slots on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- 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
System 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 slots
- 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
- AGP GPUs supported might include: ATI Fire GL4, NVIDIA Quadro 4 900 XGL, ATI Fire GL 8800, NVIDIA Quadro2 EX, ATI RADEON 7000 (depending on operating system, drivers and firmware)
Storage
- 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 ports
- 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
- HP Workstation zx2000 - Technical Reference Guide, 5969-3154, HP: April 2003 (archive.org mirror)
- HP workstation zx2000 - data sheet, 5981-1463EN, HP: July 2002 (HP URL gone — there might be an alternate)
Pictures
- front (picture © Copyright Dennis Grevenstein; with permission)
