HP zx2000
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2002 |
| Period | Decline (IV) |
| Series | Itanium |
| 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 |
| I/O | Gigabit Ethernet SCSI 4 USB 2 serial MGMT |
HP zx2000 were Itanium workstations from HP, released in the early 2000s. They are close to PA-RISC C8000 workstations and build around the same HP zx1 chipset. zx2000 workstations are built in a sleek tower case, also available as rack-mount.
Shortly after releasing the zx2000, HP dropped Itanium workstations altogether from its portfolio and soon had no modern HP-UX Unix workstations anymore. All remaining HP-UX and Itanium offerings were IA64 server systems, the Integrity rx.
HP zx6000 Itanium workstations were based on HP zx2000 but were dual-processor capable.
- HP zx2000 were introduced in 2002
- 900 MHz, SCSI, Radeon 7000, Linux sold for $5,554
- 900 MHz, IDE, Radeon 7000, HP-UX MTOE sold for $5,865
- 900 MHz, SCSI, Fire GL4, HP-UX MTOE sold for $8,340
System architecture
Processors
| System | CPU | Speed | L1 and L2 cache | L3 cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP zx2000 | Itanium 2 McKinley VLIW 64-bit | 900 MHz | 16/16 KB + 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
| HP zx2000 | Itanium 2 Madison VLIW 64-bit | 1.4 GHz | 16/16 KB + 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
| HP zx2000 | Itanium 2 Madison VLIW 64-bit | 1.4 GHz | 16/16 KB + 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
| HP zx2000 | Itanium 2 Madison VLIW 64-bit | 1.5 GHz | 16/16 KB + 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
| HP zx2000 | Itanium 2 Deerfield VLIW 64-bit | 1.0 GHz | 16/16 KB + 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
Chipset
- HP zx1 chipset, original HP Itanium design based on two main components: MIO memory and I/O controller and IOA I/O adapters.
- Pluto zx1 MIO is the main chipset controller and connects processor bus, two memory buses and seven I/O channels. Contains memory and cache controllers.
- Four Mercury zx1 IOAs connect PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO on six I/O channels (3.0 GB/s)
- Gigabit Ethernet, Intel 82540
- Two-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller (optional)
- Ultra ATA-100 IDE controller, PCI649
- Graphics possibly through separate AGP boards:
- Optional ATI FireGL4 (HP-UX)
- Optional ATI FireGL X1 (HP-UX)
- Optional ATI FireGL Z1 (HP-UX)
- Optional nVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL (Linux)
- Optional nVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL (Linux)
- Optional nVIDIA Quadro2 EX (Linux)
- Optional ATI Radeon 7000 AGP (HP-UX and Linux)
- Other cards might or might not work
- 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 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
- 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 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
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 for Itanium 11i v1.6 and 11i v2
- Linux for Itanium
- FreeBSD/ia64
- OpenVMS (officially unsupported on this platform)
- Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003
- Windows Server 2008 Itanium-based Editions
- Windows Server 2003 Itanium-based Editions
Pictures
Dimensions
| System | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower | 502mm | 268mm | 512mm | 25kg |
| Rack-mounted | 4U | 482mm | 510mm | 20kg |
Benchmarks
| System | Processor | SPEC2000 int |
SPEC2000 fp |
SPEC2000 rate int |
SPEC2000 rate fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zx2000 | McKinley 900 MHz | 668 | 1086 | 12.6 |
Comparison to SPEC benchmark data from other contemporary Unix workstations:
| System | Processor | SPEC2000 int |
SPEC2000 fp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Ultra 40 | AMD Opteron 256 3.0GHz | 1957 | |
| AMD | Opteron 250 2.4GHz | 1619 | 1652 |
| HP zx6000 | Madison 1.5 GHz | 1315 | 2106 |
| Intel | Pentium 4 520 2.8GHz | 1290 | |
| HP ProLiant BL40p | Intel Xeon 2.8GHz | 1249 | 1081 |
| AMD | Athlon XP 2.2GHz | 1080 | 873 |
| HP c8000 | PA-8800 1.0 GHz | 1001 (est.) | |
| HP AlphaServer ES80 | Alpha 21364 1GHz | 689 | 975 |
| HP Visualize C3750 | PA-RISC PA-8700+ 875 MHz 2.2MB | 678 | 674 |
| IBM POWER 275 | IBM POWER4+ 1GHz | 617 | 862 |
| Sun Fire 280R | UltraSPARC III Cu 1GHz | 511 | 688 |
| DELL Power Edge 4400 | Pentium III Xeon 1 GHz | 437 | 302 |
| IBM RS/6000 M80 | IBM RS64 IV 750MHz | 409 | 359 |
| HP i2000 | Itanium Merced 800MHz 4MB | 365 | 610 |
Documentation
- HP Workstation zx2000 - Technical Reference Guide, 5969-3154, HP: April 2003 archive.org
- HP workstation zx2000 - data sheet, 5981-1463EN, HP: July 2002 (URL gone)