HP zx6000
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2002 |
| Period | Decline (IV) |
| CPU | 1-2 Itanium 2 900 MHz-1.5 GHz |
| Caches | 32 KB L1 256 KB L2 1.5-6.0 MB L3 |
| RAM | 24 GB |
| Design | zx1 |
| Drives | 3 SCSI 1 IDE |
| Expansion | 3 PCI-X 64/133 1 AGP 4x |
| Bandwidth | CPU 6.4 GB/s Mem 8.5 GB/s I/O 3.5 GB/s |
| I/O | GigE 10/100E SCSI 4 USB 2 serial MGMT |
Overview
The HP zx6000 are dual-processor Itanium workstations based on the zx2000 workstation with an architecture centered around the HP zx1 Itanium chipset, also used in the zx2000 and PA-RISC servers. The chassis was designed for rack-mounting (2U) with appropriate rails; with a tower kit it can be converted to a standalone unit. In contrast to the zx2000, the zx6000 has slightly higher I/O and double the memory bandwidth and supports three times the amount of memory.
The zx6000 with fast CPUs is probably the fastest HP-UX workstation.
System
Processor
| No. | CPU Type | Clock | L1 (I/D) | L2 (I/D) | L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-2 | Itanium 2 McKinley | 900 MHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 1.5 MB |
| 1-2 | Itanium 2 McKinley | 1.0 GHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 3.0 MB |
| 1-2 | Itanium 2 Madison | 1.3 GHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 3.0 MB |
| 1-2 | Itanium 2 Madison | 1.5 GHz | 16/16 KB | 256 KB | 6.0 MB |
All caches are on-die (L1, L2 and L3).
Chipset
- HP zx1 chipset
- Pluto zx1 MIO memory and I/O controller connects to the processor bus, two memory buses and seven I/O channels. Contains memory and cache controllers.
- Six zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO on seven I/O channels
- AGP 4x graphics bus on two channels: 1.0 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- Gigabit Ethernet and Ultra320 SCSI on PCI 64/66 on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- IDE, USB, management LAN on PCI 32/33 on one channel: 0.5 GB/s
- Gigabit Ethernet, Broadcom 5701
- Two-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller, LSI 1030
- 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
- 10/100 Ethernet for management, Intel 82550
System buses
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus 6.4 GB/s
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266 MHz, each 4.25 GB/s, aggregate 8.5 GB/s
- Seven zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 3.5 GB/s
- Three PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
- PCI-X 64/66 I/O bus, for SCSI/Gigabit Ethernet onboard
- PCI 32/33 I/O bus, for IDE/USB/management onboard devices
- Two SCSI-3 Ultra320 (LVD) storage I/O buses
- AGP 4x graphics bus
- UltraATA-100 IDE storage I/O bus
Memory
- PC2100 registered ECC DDR266 SDRAM DIMMs
- Takes up to 2 GB modules
- Twelve slots
- 512 MB minimum (2×256 MB)
- 24 GB maximum (12×2 GB)
- 8.5 GB/s memory bandwidth
Expansion slots
- Three PCI-X 64-bit/133 MHz slots, full-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, ATI FIRE GL X1, NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL, NVIDIA Quadro 4 900 XGL, ATI Fire GL 8800, NVIDIA Quadro2 EX, ATI RADEON 7000 (depending on operating system, drivers and firmware)
Storage
- Three internal 3.5″ bays for Ultra160 SCSI SCA 80-pin hard drives, hot-plug
- Slimline bay for optional IDE CD or DVD drive
- Drive 1 and 2 are on one SCSI channel, drive 3 and the external connector on the second
External I/O
- Gigabit Ethernet, TP/RJ45
- 10/100 Ethernet, TP/RJ45 BT management network
- Ultra320 SCSI 68-pin
- 25-pin serial for management processor card, needs break-out cable for 3 serial ports
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- Two serial RS232C DB9
- 16-bit stereo audio (optional)
Operating systems
- HP-UX 11i v1.6 and 11i v2
- Linux for Itanium
- FreeBSD/ia64
- Windows Server 2008 Itanium-based Editions
- Windows Server 2003 Itanium-based Editions
- Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003
- OpenVMS (officially unsupported on this platform)
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000 rate, int |
SPEC2000 rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zx6000 900 MHz |
669 | 1139 | 7.8 2-CPU: 15.4 |
13.2 2-CPU: 23.9 |
| zx6000 1.0 GHz |
807 | 1422 | 16.5 2-CPU: 30 |
|
| zx6000 1.5 GHz |
1315 | 2106 | 15.2 2-CPU: 30.4 |
24.4 2-CPU: 42.4 |
Dimensions
| Model | Height | Width | Depth | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower | 494mm | 295mm | 675mm | 25kg |
| Rack-mounted | 2U | 483mm | 679mm | 22kg |
References
- Operation and Maintenance Guide HP Integrity rx2600 server and HP workstation zx6000 (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (September 2003, second edition)
- HP Workstation zx6000 - data sheet, 5981-7454EN, HP: June 2003 (PDF URL gone)
- HP workstation zx6000 - data sheet, 5981-1464EN, HP: July 2002 (PDF URL gone)
Pictures
- front (picture © Copyright Dennis Grevenstein; with permission)
