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Overview of the HP Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and

rx5670 servers

A technical white paper from HP

Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................3

Introducing the Intel

Itanium

2 processor....................................................................................................3

Itanium 2–based HP Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers ...................................................3

HP Integrity rx1600 server at a glance .....................................................................................................3

HP Integrity rx1600 server details ............................................................................................................4

HP Integrity rx1600 server product specifications ...................................................................................4

Physical and environmental specifications .............................................................................................5

Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx1600 server...........................................................6

Racking density......................................................................................................................................6

HP Integrity rx2600 server at a glance .....................................................................................................7

HP Integrity rx2600 server details ............................................................................................................7

HP Integrity rx2600 server product specifications ...................................................................................7

Physical and environmental specifications .............................................................................................8

Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx2600 server...........................................................9

Racking density......................................................................................................................................9

Standalone pedestal configuration .........................................................................................................10

Workstation or server? Here’s how to choose..........................................................................................10

Comparing the HP Workstation zx6000 with the Integrity rx2600 server ...................................................10

HP Integrity rx4640 server at a glance ...................................................................................................11

HP Integrity rx4640 server details ..........................................................................................................12

HP Integrity rx4640 server product specifications .................................................................................12

Physical and environmental specifications ...........................................................................................13

Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx4640 server.........................................................13

Racking density....................................................................................................................................14

High-availability slider rails ...................................................................................................................14

Cabinet spacing requirements ...............................................................................................................14

Standalone (rackless) configuration ........................................................................................................14

HP Integrity rx5670 server at a glance ...................................................................................................15

HP Integrity rx5670 server details ..........................................................................................................15

HP Integrity rx5670 server product specifications .................................................................................15

Physical and environmental specifications ...........................................................................................16

Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx5670 server.........................................................17

Racking density....................................................................................................................................17

High-availability slider rails ...................................................................................................................18

Summary of content (30 pages)

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Overview of the HP Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers A technical white paper from HP Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................3 Introducing the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor....................................................................................................3 Itanium 2–based HP Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers ......................................
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Cabinet spacing requirements ...............................................................................................................18 Standalone/Deskside configuration........................................................................................................18 In-box upgrade from PA-RISC servers......................................................................................................18 Itanium 2–based HP Integrity server architecture.........................................
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Executive summary For many types of computing, systems based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor offer markedly superior performance over other systems that utilize RISC or IA-32 processors—while still maintaining a very competitive price. The HP Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers deliver price/performance that has changed the 64-bit server market.
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spare, an optional management processor, and high-availability clustering support make the Integrity rx1600 server a leader among high compute density servers. The Integrity rx1600 server offers incredible investment protection with in-chassis upgrades to future Intel Itanium 2 processors. The Integrity rx1600 server is also flexible, with a choice of 64-bit operating systems—HP-UX, Linux®, or OpenVMS Evaluation Release (until 2Q 2004, when a production-quality release is expected)—to suit any need.
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• Removable media – One slimline media bay for optional IDE optical drives – Choice of 16X DVD-ROM or 16X/10X/40X CD-RW (also reads DVD) • Core I/O interconnect ports – Gigabit-TX LAN with RJ-45 connector (10/100/1000BT auto-sensing) – 10/100BT LAN with RJ-45 connector and Wake-on-LAN capability – Ultra320 SCSI – General-purpose RS-232 serial ports – VGA – 2 USB Series A 2.
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Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx1600 server The exploded view reveals the location of major components as well as the mechanical and architectural features of the Integrity rx1600 server. It is partitioned into three electrical partitions—the system board, including CPUs, memory, and core I/O; the I/O backplane, including four PCI-X I/O slots; and the management processor board. Figure 2.
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HP Integrity rx2600 server at a glance The HP Integrity rx2600 server is the industry’s best-performing 2-way Itanium 2–based server. It has a sleek 2U footprint and can be equipped with up to two 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2 processors loaded with 6 MB of on-chip L3 cache and as much as 24 GB of RAM. This means that it has extraordinary compute density. Fitting 20 servers into a 2-meter rack delivers an astounding 240 gigaFLOPS of potential power.
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• Expansion slots – 1 PCI-X, 1 GB/s sustained, 64-bit 133 MHz – 3 PCI-X, 0.5 GB/s sustained, 64-bit 133 MHz – Each slot is full-length and has an independent bus • Hot-plug disk drives (3 bays for 1-inch-high 3.
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• Net weight – Minimum standalone configuration: 22.4 kg (49.4 lb.) – Maximum standalone configuration: 25.5 kg (56.2 lb.) – Minimum rack configuration: 17.5 kg (38.6 lb.) – Maximum rack configuration: 22.2 kg (49.0 lb.) Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx2600 server The exploded view reveals the location of major components as well as the mechanical and architectural features of the Integrity rx2600 server.
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Standalone pedestal configuration The Integrity rx2600 server is also available in a standalone configuration when a cabinet is not desired. The standalone system is ideal for an office environment, under a desk, or on a shelf. The standalone configuration uses a stylish tower mounting shell, with the system simply placed inside this shell. Note: Dimensions for standalone/pedestal configuration: height = 19.5 inches (49.5 cm), depth = 26.5 inches (67.3 cm), width = 11.7 inches (29.7 cm).
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Comparing the HP Workstation zx6000 with the HP Integrity rx2600 server (continued) Hot-plug disks Yes Yes Memory chip spare No Yes Redundant hot-swap power supplies Optional Optional Redundant hot-swap fans Yes Yes HP Serviceguard clustering support No Yes Tower configuration Yes (with quieter fans for deskside use) Yes (with redundant fans) Rack-optimized configuration Yes—2U Maximum 20 systems in a 2-meter rack Yes—2U Maximum 20 systems in a 2-meter rack HP Integrity rx4640 server at
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HP Integrity rx4640 server details HP Integrity rx4640 server product specifications • Central processor – 1, 2, 3, or 4 Intel Itanium 2 processors at 1.3 GHz or 1.5 GHz • Cache (all on-chip) – 16 KB instruction and 16 KB data level 1 cache – 256 KB level 2 cache – 3 MB level 3 cache (1.3 GHz) – 6 MB level 3 cache (1.5 GHz) • Main memory – 1 GB minimum to 64 GB maximum PC2100 parity-protected ECC chip spare DDR CL2 memory – Choice of either 16 DIMM or 32 DIMM memory carrier board – 12.
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Physical and environmental specifications • Environmental specifications – Altitude: Operating: 3000 m (10,000 ft.) maximum Storage: 4600 m (15,000 ft.) maximum – Temperature: Operating: +05° C to +35° C (+41° F to +95° F) Non-operating: –40° C to +70° C (–40° F to +158° F) – Humidity: Operating: 15% to 80% (relative, non-condensing) • Physical dimensions in rack orientation – Height: 17.3 cm (6.8 in.), 4U EIA – Width: 48.2 cm (19 in.) – Depth: 69.0 cm (27.2 in.), including 2.9 cm (1.1 in.
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Removing the front bezel and a sheet-metal section that covers the top one-third and front of the server provides access to the memory and processor boards. Memory can be easily added to the server (when powered off) without removing the memory carrier. Depending on your choice of memory carriers, up to 16 or 32 DIMMs can be loaded into the server. Both the memory carrier and processor boards can be easily removed without tools by unlatching and sliding them forward.
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HP Integrity rx5670 server at a glance The HP Integrity rx5670 server is the industry’s most expandable 4-way Itanium 2–based server. This server can be equipped with up to four Intel Itanium 2 processors, as much as 96 GB of RAM, and ten PCI-X I/O expansion slots. Simply put, the Integrity rx5670 server is the highest-performing, most expandable 4-way server on the market.
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• Chipset – HP zx1 Chipset – 105-nanosecond memory latency – 6.4 GB/s system bus bandwidth – 4.
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• Net weight – Maximum configuration: 72.6 kg (160 lb.) Mechanical design and packaging of the HP Integrity rx5670 server The exploded view illustrates the location of major components as well as the mechanical and architectural features of the Integrity rx5670 server. The server is partitioned into two main electrical partitions—the system partition, including baseboard, CPU board, and memory carrier boards; and the I/O partition, consisting of PCI-X I/O slots, core I/O, and the management processor.
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High-availability slider rails There are two rail options, static or slider, available for racking the Integrity rx5670 server into an HP cabinet. The high-availability (HA) slider rails were designed to allow easy service access to the system as well as to enable hot-swapping of the four fans in the side cavity.
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• The HP zx1 Chipset I/O adapter chip is a scalable solution designed to support PCI-X, PCI, and AGP bus architectures. It provides a scalable I/O implementation for a wide variety of systems. The Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers do not deploy AGP graphics bus technology. AGP is available in the HP zx2000 and zx6000 Workstations, which also employ the HP zx1 Chipset.
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The HP zx1 Chipset is ideal for use with the Intel Itanium 2 processor because it complements the processor’s price/performance advantages. Moreover, the new zx1 Chipset leverages HP’s co-developer knowledge of the CPU itself. Indeed, the HP zx1 Chipset was the turn-on vehicle for the Intel Itanium 2 processor in February 2001. At that time, Itanium 2–based systems with the HP zx1 Chipset were already running HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
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I/O channels link to three PCI buses, which in turn link to the core LAN, SCSI, IDE, and USB interfaces and to the management processor. Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx2600 server The HP Integrity rx2600 server supports either one or two Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the HP zx1 Chipset memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit front-side system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s. Figure 11.
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Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx4640 server The HP Integrity rx4640 server supports one, two, three, or four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the zx1 memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s. Figure 12. The HP Integrity rx4640 server supports up to four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the HP zx1 Chipset The zx1 Chipset memory controller links to two independent 200 MHz, 6.4 GB/s memory buses.
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Architectural overview of the HP Integrity rx5670 server The HP Integrity rx5670 server supports one, two, three, or four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the zx1 Chipset memory and I/O controller through a 200 MHz, double-pumped 128-bit system bus. Total bandwidth on the system bus is 6.4 GB/s. Figure 13. The HP Integrity rx5670 server supports up to four Intel Itanium 2 processors linked to the HP zx1 Chipset The zx1 Chipset memory controller links to two independent 200 MHz, 6.4 GB/s memory buses.
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For a hard disk, the system partition is a contiguous grouping of sectors on the disk. The starting sector and size are defined by the EFI partition table residing on the second logical block of the hard disk and/or by the master boot record (MBR), which resides on the first sector of the hard disk. The system partition can contain directories, data files, and EFI images.
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• Automatic system restart • Forward progress indicator (via a virtual front panel) • Out-of-band manageability and system firmware update • Configuration of manageability and console security • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on Web console access Figure 14.
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These servers have high-availability power supplies, too. The Integrity rx5670, rx4640, and rx2600 servers’ power subsystems provide high availability with N+1 redundant power options. The Integrity rx5670 server comes standard with two hot-swap power supplies, and an optional third supply can be ordered for 2+1 redundancy. The Integrity rx4640 and rx2600 servers each come standard with a single hot-swap power supply; an optional second supply gives these servers 1+1 redundancy of power supplies.
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The Integrity rx1600, rx2600, rx4640, and rx5670 servers employ dynamic processor resiliency (DPR), too. With DPR, any CPU generating correctable cache errors at a rate deemed unacceptable is de-allocated from use by the system. This feature helps protect against a CPU degrading to the point where it may cause system crashes. DPR works like this: When excessive errors are reported against a CPU, the CPU is deactivated (that is, the operating system will not schedule any new processes on it).
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management events can be viewed directly on the server or through HP Insight Manager, which can aggregate information from multiple systems in the data center. Customers also have the option to integrate fault management events with enterprise management software from HP (OpenView) or from BMC, Tivoli, Computer Associates, or MicroMuse. Added options with HP support For customers who purchase HP support, fault management events can be forwarded to the HP support organization.
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on faster Intel Itanium processors released in the future. The IEL is expected to supersede the Intel Value Engine hardware feature since it will clearly provide much better performance on 32-bit applications. Running RISC applications Users can run their PA-RISC binaries unchanged and completely transparently, thanks to the Aries dynamic code translator that is part of HP-UX 11i.
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For more information Looking for more information about the Intel Itanium Processor Family? Find out more about the architecture and how HP can help you make your transition by visiting: www.hp.com/go/itanium Or visit our Itanium-based servers and workstations site at: www.hp.com/products1/itanium/servers_workstations/index.html Or contact any of our worldwide sales offices or HP Channel Partners (in the U.S., call 1-800-637-7740).