Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The Rematch was one of the most popular live events ever staged on the Internet.

It was also expensive, time-consuming, and risky. So why did we do it? www.chess.ibm.com provided us invaluable experience at producing high-volume, complex web sites. We pass on this experience to our customers, who need scalability, reliability, and industrial-strength hardware and software for their own web servers.

Creating and running event sites like this one also helps us develop products like Network Dispatcher, the software that routes traffic to the server nodes. Network Dispatcher was used for the first time on the first Kasparov vs. Deep Blue web site in February 1996. That site set a traffic record for Internet event sites up to that date.

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The Rematch was an historic event. The web site behind made history as well, with a unique combination of hardware, software and solutions that provided a scalable, robust and interactive web event to thousands of fans.

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