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{{otheruses2|Entropia}}
{{Infobox Defunct Company |
  company_name   = Entropia, Inc.|
  company_logo   = |
  fate           = closed |
  foundation     = 1997|
  defunct        = 2004|
  location       = [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px]] [[USA]]|
  key_people     = [[Scott Kurowski]] founder|
  num_employees  = |
  industry       = Software development|
  products       = Software|
}}

'''Entropia, Inc.''' was a [[company (law)|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 (computing)|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]]⏎
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== 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]
* {{cite web|url=http://www.entropia.com/|title=Entropia - PC Grid Computing Official Website|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030203160941/http://www.entropia.com/|archivedate=2003-02-03}}

[[Category:Companies established in 1997]]
[[Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Distributed computing projects]]
[[Category:Grid computing products]]
[[Category:Defunct software companies]]
[[Category:Companies disestablished in 2004]]

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