Name Scott Kurowski | ||
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Organizations founded Entropia, Inc. | ||
Scott Kurowski is an entrepreneurial software technologist and inventor. In 1997 he founded Entropia, a venture capital funded company selling grid computing (or distributed computing) software. In 2000, he built a grid computing system searching for HIV protease inhibitors for The Scripps Research Institute. In 2002 he helped launch Digital Orchid, a branded mobile wireless digital media solutions company using technology acquired from Discovercast.
GIMPS PrimeNet Server
He also continues to run the Internet PrimeNet Server that supports GIMPS, one of the earliest and most successful grid computing projects, researching Mersenne prime numbers. Scott Kurowski wrote the PrimeNet server software that supports distributed computing to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software. He is Executive Vice President and board director of Mersenne Research Inc.