“We are a non-profit organization aiming to solve some of the most important scientific mathematical problems facing mankind by utilizing unused resources from cloud computing vendors and any data centers from all over the globe who are willing to help us with our cause.”

Overview

The goal of RainUp is to create the world's single largest distributed supercomputing grid, without competing against already established systems like BOINC, as we will hopefully distribute part our processing load onto BOINC and others as well as collaborate with them on problems in the future.

We also aim is to create a common umbrella for scientific research and problem solving. This alliance will help scientific teams from all over the world both gain exposure and recognition for their work. And it will also help them with solving their specific problems.

The general public will also be able to easily contribute to RainUp in many engaging ways, including taking part in the problem selection, solving, and funding phases.

RainDrops — The first light-weight distributed computing & advertising platform

One of the many different sources of computing process power we are planning to utilize is that of flash-based ad banners and games which implement our distributed calculation API.

Websites will be able to donate part of their ad space to RainUp, which we will use to raise the public awareness of the project, as well as promote our top corporate sponsors.

And for the first time in computing history, the ad itself will also contribute to the project directly by acting as a calculation node. We call this Flash-based calculation node a “RainDrop”.

When a user visits a site with a “RainDrop”, they automatically donate a unnoticeably small percentage of their computer's processing power to solving the current problem RainUp is processing. The RainDrop automatically saves it's state using cookies, so if it doesn't finish it's currently assigned calculation, it will resume from where it left off the next time you visit a RainUp enabled website.

RainDrops will also display statics of how much computing power both you personally, and the current site you're visiting has contributed to solving the current problem.