HP Integrity servers are the Itanium2 based offshoot of the Mid-Range HP9000 series machines.

 

In 2003 Hewlett Packard unveiled the Integrity line of servers which cater to the same segment as someIntegrity rp-8620 HP9000 servers however the line is only available with Itanium2 processors. Beginning in 2009, rp-xxxx PA-RISC based platforms will no longer be available through HP which will leave the Integrity family as the single Mid-Range solution from HP.

 

PA-RISC processors have been a staple in HPs mid-range and high-end servers since the early 1980s so this transition will mark the end of an era. The current Integrity lineup has offerings ranging from their rx-1600 which is a 1U, 1/2-Way machine all the way up to the rx-8620-16 17U, 16/32-Way monster. The latter of which matches the socket count of the smallest of HPs flagship Superdome series, so the Integrity family covers a sizable segment.

 

Delving into the internals, the workstation and entry level server configurations are based around the zx1 "Pluto" chipset which can scale up to 4 sockets, while the higher end models use the same sx1000 cell technology found in Superdome servers. The zx1 chipset employs three additional components, the HP chipset & memory I/O controller for connecting memory and CPUs together, the HP chipset I/O adapter which acts as a bridge to which additional bus' and other I/O devices are attached (PCI-X, SCSI, IDE, NIC and USB) and 2x scalable memory adapter chips to facilitate more memory banks when used in a server configuration. On the other end of the spectrum, HPs sx1000 is a completely different technology from the ground up.