HP Visualize J6000 & J6700
Overview
Project names - uname:
- J6000: Duet W+ - 9000/785
- J6700: Duet W2 - 9000/785
- J6750: Duet W2 - 9000/785
These small workstations were aimed at the graphics workstations market, equipped with the new 64-bit PA-8600 and PA-8700, both featuring large on-chip L1 caches. The architecture was a major change from those of its predecessors. New I/O devices were integrated, the LASI I/O chip was dumped together with the old GSC bus. All these devices now sit on several PCI buses, human I/O devices are connected to USB ports. The very small case can be used on the desktop or fitted in a 19″ rack.
Internals
CPU
- J6000: 1-2 PA-8600 552MHz with 512/1024KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
- J6700: 1-2 PA-8700 750MHz with 768/1536KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
- J6750: 1-2 PA-8700+ 875MHz with 768/1536KB on-chip I/D L1 cache
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 buses main storage I/O
- IDE bus; CD-I/O
Memory
- 278-pin 120MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs
- 16 slots
- Takes 512MB/1GB DIMMs
- 1GB (2×512) minimum, 16GB maximum (16×1G)
Expansion
- Three PCI 64-bit/66MHz, 3.3V slots
Drives
- One tray for two 3.5″ Ultra2-Wide LVD SCSI hard drives with 80-pin SCA connector
- One tray for a slim-line ATAPI CD-ROM
External Connectors
- Combined 50-pin HD SCSI-2 Ultra-Narrow single-ended and 68-pin HD SCSI-3 Ultra2-Wide LVD connector (?)
- 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 a firmware update available for the PA-8600-based J6000, 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.
A different firmware update is provided for the PA-8700-based J67x0 systems (version 2.0):
- PF_CCJ70020.txt has details about the contents and installation of the patch.
- PF_CCJ70020 contains the patch.
References
- J6000 Service Handbook (PDF, 4.5MB)
- J6000 Technical Reference (PDF, 3.3MB)
- J6700 Service Handbook (PDF, 9.8MB)
- J6700 Technical Reference (PDF, 5.6MB)
Operating Systems
Benchmarks
| Model | SPEC95, int | SPEC95, fp | SPEC95rate, int | SPEC95rate, fp | SPEC2000, int | SPEC2000, fp | SPEC2000rate, int | SPEC2000rate, fp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J6000 | 42.60 | 62.70 | 384 2-CPU: 758 |
564 2-CPU: 847 |
441 | 433 | 2-CPU: 9.7 | 2-CPU: 8.0 |
| J6700 | 57.60 | 85.90 | 603 | 581 | 2-CPU: 13.4 | 2-CPU: 10.5 | ||
| J6750 | 676 | 651 | 2-CPU: 14.9 | 2-CPU: 11.5 |
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