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The Net prepares to virtually raise the TitanicTHE sinking of the Titanic, recently portrayed in the popular movie Titanic, has captured the imagination of the world in a way few events in modern history have done. Now Internet users can find out why when the Discovery Channel Online explores the wreck of the Titanic in a web cast that's likely to be one of the most popular in Internet history. To meet the increase in traffic demands, expected to rival even the millions of hits a day of the recent Mars landing, Discovery Channel Online will use Silicon Graphics's Origin200 servers to power its on-line real-time access to previously unseen images of the Titanic. They have integrated six two-processor Origin200 servers to cope with the expected flood of traffic. "The Discovery Channel Online needs servers that can deal with a massive surge in hits from an exponential number of visitors," says Vaughan Wooler, sales manager of Silicon Graphics in sub-Saharan Africa. "Our servers proved they were more than capable of achieving just that during the Mars landing when they coped easily with millions of hits per day worldwide." "The Origin200 servers," continues Wooler, "with their industry-leading benchmark performance and application-proven reliability are capable of handling the record number of users expected while balancing large loads of incoming graphic-intensive data." Over 300 Silicon Graphics workstations, using software from Alias/Wavefront, Softimage, Avid and Side Effects were used to create this monumental epic love story, which included a computer-generated ocean and thousands of computer-generated extras on the deck of 45-foot studio model. Discovery Channel Online's Titanic coverage can be found at http://www.discovery.com.
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