HP Visualize J5000, J5600, J7000 & J7600
Overview
Project names/uname:
- J5000: Forte 2W - 9000/785
- J5600: Forte W+ 2W - 9000/785
- J7000: Forte 4W - 9000/785
- J7600: Forte W+ 4W - 9000/785
These workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with up to two 64-bit PA-8500 featuring large on-chip L1 caches. They are basically the bigger brothers of the C3000/C3600 et al, featuring better expandability. 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. The case also was a major redesign.
Internals
CPU
- J5000: 1-2 PA-8500 440MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- J5600: 1-2 PA-8600 552MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- J7000: 1-4 PA-8500 440MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
- J7600: 1-4 PA-8600 552MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache each
Chipset
- Astro memory/Runway controller
- Four 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
- DEC 21142/43 Fast Ethernet controller (Tulip)
- Symbios Logic 53C896 Ultra2-Wide SCSI-3 controller
Buses
- Runway CPU/memory bus
- PCI-64/33 high-performance device I/O bus
- PCI-64/66 high-performance graphics I/O bus
- SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended bus
- SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD bus main storage I/O
- IDE bus; CD/floppy I/O
Memory
- 278-pin 120MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
- Takes 256/512/1024MB modules
- J5000: 8 slots
- J7000: 16 slots
- 256MB (1×256) minimum, J5000: 8GB (8×1024) maximum; J7000: 16GB (16×1024) maximum.
Expansion
- Five PCI 64-bit/33MHz, 5V slots
- Two PCI 64-bit/66MHz, 3.3V slots
- I/O slots layout (from top to bottom):
- EMPTY
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-64/66, 3.3V
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-64/33, 5V
- PCI-64/66, 3.3V
- PCI-64/33, 5V
Drives
- One tray for four 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″ SCSI drive, external accessible
External Connectors
- 50-pin HD SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended
- 68-pin HD SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD
- Two DB9 male RS232C serial
- DB25 female parallel
- TP/RJ45 10/100Mbit Ethernet
- Two USB ports for keyboard & mouse
- Four phone jacks (microphone, headphones, line-in and line-out)
ROM update
There is an firmware update available 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
- J5x00/J7x00 Owner’s Guide (PDF, 4.5MB)
- J5x00/J7x00 Service Handbook (PDF, 4.4MB)
- VISUALIZE Workstation Memory Subsystem (PDF, 120KB)
Operating Systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95, int | SPEC95, fp | SPEC95rate, int | SPEC95rate, fp | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J5000 | 32.50 | 54.00 | 302 | 486 | ||
| J5000 2-CPU |
579 | 744 | ||||
| J5600 | 42.60 | 62.70 | 384 | 564 | 408 | 392 |
| J5600 2-CPU |
758 | 847 | ||||
| J7000 | 32.50 | 54.00 | 302 | 486 | ||
| J7000 2-CPU |
579 | 744 |
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