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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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