HP 9000 rp3410 & rp3440
Overview
Time of introduction: 2004
The rp3400 series rp3410 and rp3440 servers are one of the last PA-RISC-based HP 9000 systems. They are driven by dual-core PA-8800 Mako or PA-8900 processors. At the core of the system is HP’s zx1 chipset, also used with Itanium 2 processors. There is an upgrade path to Intel/HP IA64 Itanium 2 processors. The systems can be rack-mounted (2U) or used stand-alone. The HP 9000 rp4410 and rp4440 servers are technically very similar with a large range of processing and expansion possibilities.
List price at time of introduction: US $4,000 for a (single-CPU, dual-core) rp3410 and US $7,000 for a (single-CPU, dual-core) rp3440.
Internals
CPU
rp3410
- Dual-core PA-8800 800MHz with 1.5MB/1.5MB on-chip I/D L1 cache and 32MB off-chip L2 cache each
rp3440
- 1 or 2 dual-core PA-8800 900MHz-1GHz with 1.5MB/1.5MB on-chip I/D L1 cache and 32MB off-chip L2 cache each
or - 1 or 2 dual-core PA-8900 800MHz-1.1GHz with 1.5MB/1.5MB on-chip I/D L1 cache and 64MB off-chip L2 cache each
- It is possible to upgrade the CPUs to Itanium 2/IA64 processors.
- The minimum system configurations were shipped with one CPU with one core disabled which could be software-upgraded.
Chipset
The systems are based on HP’s zx1 chipset, which consists of two main components — the MIO (memory and I/O controller) and the IOAs (I/O adapters).
- zx1 MIO (memory and I/O controller) is the main chipset controller
and connects the three central system buses:
- Processor bus (6.4GB/s) for one (rp3410) or two (rp3440) CPUs
- Two independent memory buses (each 4.25GB/s)
- The I/O channels (via the IOAs, see below) — six on rp3410 (3.0GB/s) and eight on rp3440 (4.0GB/s)
The rp3410 and rp3440 have different I/O configurations based on IOAs:
- rp3410: Five zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots
and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate
bandwidth of 3.0GB/s on six 0.5GB/s channels
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- Management LAN and serial ports (iLO card) on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- Ultra160 SCSI and Gigabit Ethernet controllers on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- IDE and USB controllers one channel — 0.5GB/s
- rp3440: Seven zx1 IOAs (I/O adapters) connect the PCI-X slots
and I/O devices to the zx1 MIO with an aggregate
bandwidth of 4.0GB/s on eight 0.5GB/s channels
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on two channels — 1.0GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- PCI-X 64/133 I/O slot on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- Management LAN and serial ports (iLO card) on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- Ultra160 SCSI and Gigabit Ethernet controllers on one channel — 0.5GB/s
- IDE and USB controllers on one channel — 0.5GB/s
The I/O connectivity
part of the chipset is made up of standard
third-party I/O chips:
- Dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller (LSI Logic 53C1030)
- Gigabit Ethernet controller (Broadcom Tigon 3)
- IDE controller (PCI649)
- USB2.0 controller
» View a system-level illustration (ASCII) of the system/bus architecture.
Buses
- Itanium 2/zx1 processor bus, 128-bit, 200MHz, 6.4GB/s
- Two independent zx1 memory buses, 266MHz, each 4.25GB/s — aggregate 8.5GB/s memory bandwidth
- rp3410:
- Six zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 3.0GB/s
- Two PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
- rp3440:
- Eight zx1 I/O channels/buses, aggregate 4.0GB/s
- Four PCI-X 64/133 I/O buses
- SCSI-3 Ultra160 (LVD) storage I/O bus
- IDE secondary storage I/O bus
Memory
- PC2100 parity ECC DDR CL2 SDRAM DIMMs
- Twelve slots
- 1GB minimum memory (4×256MB)
- rp3410: 6GB maximum memory
- rp3440: 32GB maximum memory (with eight 4GB DIMMs — the other four slots must be left empty in this maximum configuration)
- 8.5GB/s memory bandwidth
- 80ns memory latency
Expansion
- One PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz slot (1GB/s sustained data rate)
- rp3410: One PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz slot (512MB/s sustained data rate)
- rp3440: Three PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz slots (512MB/s sustained data rate)
- (rp3410 has overall two slots, rp3440 four slots)
- All PCI slots are 3.3V
Drives
- Three bays for 3.5″ Ultra160 LVD SCSI hard drives, 1″ height, 68-pin
- Slimline bay for optional IDE CD or DVD drive
External Connectors
- Three DB9 male RS232C serial (local console, remote console, general purpose)
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- TP/RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
- HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) system management card with Fast-Ethernet Web console
- Ultra160 SCSI 68-pin
References
- User Service Guide HP 9000 rp3410 and HP 9000 rp3440 (PDF) Hewlett-Packard Development Company (April 2007, fourth edition)
- Overview of the HP 9000 rp3410-2, rp3440-4, rp4410-4, and rp4440-8 Servers (PDF, 700KB) Hewlett-Packard (2005)
Operating Systems
- HP-UX: 11i v1, v2 or v3 (foundation, enterprise or MCOE or TCOE)
- Linux seems to be supported on at least the rp3440 (according to ESIEE)
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000rate, int | SPEC2000rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rp3440 1GHz dualcore |
2-core: 18.7 2-CPU/4-core: 37.1 |
2-core: 19.2 2-CPU/4-core: 32.6 |
Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.
Physical dimensions/Power
- Rack-mounted: 2U height, 483×680 mm width/depth
- Vertical stand-alone: 495×295×675 mm height/width/depth
- Weight of 23-26kg stand-alone, 18-23kg rack-mounted
- Typical power consumption of 600W
- One or two hot-swap power-supplies (one is standard)