Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Silicon Graphics Supercomputers
Help Pave Path to Mars


By day's end, JPL's primary Mars Web site, together with 23 domestic and 28 international mirror sites, registered more than 100 million hits - something JPL had not anticipated. Even before the landing, the main JPL Web site, which was hosted on a non-Silicon Graphics platform, was taking too many hits in too short of time.

Silicon Graphics immediately volunteered assistance and worked with an Internet service provider to create a new site exclusively for the Mars Pathfinder mission. Within two hours, a Silicon Graphics engineer had installed a pair of Origin200TM servers equipped with IRIS FailSafeTM software to provide fail-over protection and uninterrupted availability for the mirror site. The servers handled the traffic with ease.


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