.gif)
Entropia, Inc. (company)
Encyclopedia
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.
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
.
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
software for CPU scavenging.
Their product's server infrastructure was based on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
.
Entropia ceased commercial operations in 2004, although no formal announcement to that effect was ever made.
Public Projects
Entropia ran the serverServer (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
for GIMPS, a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime
Mersenne prime
In mathematics, a Mersenne number, named after Marin Mersenne , is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two: M_p=2^p-1.\,...
numbers. Founder Scott Kurowski
Scott Kurowski
Scott Kurowski is an entrepreneurial software technologist and inventor. In 1997 he founded Entropia, a venture capital funded company selling grid computing software. In 2000, he built a grid computing system searching for HIV protease inhibitors for The Scripps Research Institute...
, who left the company in 2001, now runs the server.
Entropia also helped with research on AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
with their FightAIDS@Home
FightAIDS@Home
FightAIDS@Home is a distributed computing project for internet-connected home computers, operated by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute...
project, which was operated in cooperation with The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute
The Scripps Research Institute is an American medical research facility that focuses on research in the basic biomedical sciences. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, with a sister facility in Jupiter, Florida, the institute is home to 3,000 scientists, technicians, graduate students, and...
. In May 2003, that relationship ended and later the project was relaunched with World Community Grid
World Community Grid
World Community Grid is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity...
.