Rain Technology
Rain technology originated in a research
project at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration
with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA). The name of the original research project was RAIN,
which stands for Reliable Array of Independent Nodes. The goal of the RAIN
project was to identify key software building blocks for creating reliable
distributed applications using off-the-shelf hardware. The focus of the
research was on high-performance, fault-tolerant and portable clustering
technology for space-borne computing.
RAIN project intended to marry distributed
computing with networking protocols. It became obvious that RAIN technology was
well-suited for Internet applications. During the RAIN project, key components
were built to fulfill this vision. A patent was filed and granted for the RAIN
technology. Rainfinity was spun off from Caltech in 1998, and the company has
exclusive intellectual property rights to the RAIN technology. After the
formation of the company, the RAIN technology has been further augmented, and
additional patents have been filed.
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