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'''Entropia, Inc.''' was a [[company (law)|company]] founded in [[1997]] which sellsthat sold [[distributed computing]] [[software]] for [[CPU scavenging]].  They have ceased commercial operations in [[2004]], although no formal announcement to that effect was ever made.

Their product's server infrastructure was heavily based on [[Microsoft Windows]], which was attributed as being at least one part of the lack of scalability of their failed productconsidered to have contributed to the lack of scalability of their product.

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 [[Scripps Research Institute]].  As of May [[2003]], that relationship ended and the project continues to operate using the [[BOINC]] software infrastructure.

== See also ==
* [[GIMPS]]
* [[Distributed computing]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.entropia.com/ Official Web Site], serving outdated and stale content (last news item added June 2003, and last product release on November 2002).

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