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Spinoff story
Rocket Science for the Internet
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Rainfinity, a company resulting from the commercialization of RAIN, produces the product, Rainwall. Rainwall runs a cluster of computer workstations, creating a distributed Internet gateway. when Rainwall detects a failure in software or hardware, traffic is shifted to a healthy gateway without interruptions to Internet service. It more evenly distributes workload across servers, providing less down time.