HP Visualize B2000 & B2600
Overview
Project names - uname:
- B2000: Kazoo - 9000/785
- B2600: Piccolo W+ - 9000/785
These workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the 64-bit PA-8500 or PA-8600 featuring large on-chip L1 caches. The B2000 features normally the former CPU and is shipped in a small tower enclosure whereas the B2600 is shipped in a desktop casing, featuring the PA-8600 CPU. The architecture was a major change from those of its predecessors, e.g. the C200 et al. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip was dumped, together with the GSC bus. All device I/O now sits on various PCI buses, human I/O devices are connected to USB ports.
Internals
CPU
- B2000: PA-8500 400MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
- B2600: PA-8600 500MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
(there are some B2000s shipped with/upgraded to PA-8600 (PCXW+) processors)
Chipset
- Astro memory/Runway controller
- Two Elroy PCI bridges
- National 87560 (SuperI/O), handling USB, RS232, parallel, floppy and IDE
- National 87415 IDE controller
- National USB controller
- Analog Devices AD1889 sound chip (on B2600 the audio card is optional)
- DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
- Symbios Logic 53C896 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
- B2000: Visualize FXe graphics
Buses
- Runway CPU/memory bus
- PCI-32/33 device I/O bus
- PCI-64/33 high-performance I/O bus
- SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD bus main storage I/O
- IDE bus; removable device-I/O (can partially boot from CD-ROM, e.g. HP-UX)
Memory
- 278-pin 120MHz ECC SD-RAM DIMMs
- Takes 128MB-1GB modules
- Four slots
- 128MB (1×128) minimum, 4GB (4×1GB) maximum
Expansion
- Two PCI 64-bit/33MHz, 5V slots (clocked at 66MHz on B2600)
- Two PCI 32-bit/33MHz, 5V slots
- B2000 I/O slot layout (from top to bottom):
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-32/33, 5V
- PCI-32/33, 5V
- B2600 I/O slot layout (from top to bottom):
- PCI-32/33, 5V, short PCI cards
- PCI-32/33, 5V, short PCI cards
- PCI-64/33, 5V, short and full-length cards
- PCI-64/33, 5V, short and full-length cards
Drives
- One tray for two 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
- One tray for a 3.5″ Floppy drive
- One tray for a half-heigth 5.25″ IDE drive, external accessible
External Connectors
- B2000: HD15 VGA
- Two DB9 male RS232C serial
- DB25 female parallel
- TP/RJ45 10/100Mbit Ethernet
- Two USB ports for keyboard & mouse
- Four audio jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out) (on B2600 the audio card is optional)
ROM update
There is an firmware update available for the B2000, which contains the latest version (5.0).
- PF_CBCJ0050.txt has details about the contents and installation of the patch.
- PF_CBCJ0050 contains the patch.
References
- B2000 Service Handbook (PDF, 8.8MB)
- B2000 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 2.6MB)
- VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120KB)
Operating Systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95, int | SPEC95, fp | SPEC95rate, int | SPEC95rate, fp | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000rate, int | SPEC2000rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2000 | 31.80 | 52.40 | 286 | 472 | 332 | 357 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| B2600 | 403 | 440 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
Compare these with other results on the Benchmarks page.
Physical dimensions/Power
B2000:- 445×229×495 mm height/width/depth
- rack-mounted: 6U height, 451×665 mm width/depth
- 18.6kg net weight, 21.4kg fully loaded
- 620W max. power input
- 3.5A max. RMS at 240V
- 8.0A max. RMS at 120V
- 127×425×457 mm height/width/depth
- rack-mounted: 127×483×495 mm width/depth
- 18.2kg net weight, 20.2kg fully loaded
- 1.8A max. RMS at 240V
- 3.6A max. RMS at 120V