Entropia, Inc. (company)

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Entropia, Inc.
company_
fate = closed
foundation = 1997
defunct = 2004
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key_people = Scott Kurowski founder
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industry = Software development
products = Software

Entropia, Inc. was a company founded in 1997 that sold distributed computing software for CPU scavenging.

Their product's server infrastructure was based on Microsoft Windows.

Entropia ceased commercial operations in 2004, although no formal announcement to that effect was ever made.

Public Projects

Entropia ran the server for GIMPS, a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers. Founder Scott Kurowski, who left the company in 2001, now runs the server.

Entropia also helped with research on AIDS with their FightAIDS@Home project, which was operated in cooperation with The Scripps Research Institute. In May 2003, that relationship ended and later the project was relaunched with World Community Grid.

See also

* GIMPS
* Distributed computing

External links

* [http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/calder/papers/JPDC-Entropia.pdf Description of Entropia's Architecture for GRID Computing]
* [http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/calder/papers/VEE-05-EVM.pdf Description of Entropia's Virtual Machine for GRID Computing]
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