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'''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]], which was considered 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 (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 continues to operate using was relaunched withe [[BOINC]] software infrastructureWorld Community Grid]].

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* [http://www.entropia.com/ Official Web Site], serving outdated and stale content (last news item added June 2003, and last product release on November 2002).

[[Category:Companies established in 1997|Entropia, Inc.]]
[[Category:2004 disestablishments|Entropia, Inc.]]
[[Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States|Entropia, Inc.]]
[[Category:Distributed computing|Entropia, Inc.]]
[[Category:Software companies|Entropia, Inc.]]


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