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Entropia, Inc. (company)

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Industry
  
Software development

Defunct
  
2004

Products
  
Software

Founder
  
Scott Kurowski

Ceased operations
  
2004

Fate
  
closed

Key people
  
Scott Kurowski founder

Headquarters
  
United States of America

Founded
  
1997

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.

References

Entropia, Inc. (company) Wikipedia