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Entropia, Inc. was a company founded in 1997 that sold distributed computing software for CPU scavenging. Project_Entropia is a popular computer game. ... A company is, in general, any group of persons, which are known as its members, united to pursue a common interest. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Distributed computing is an aspect of computer science that deals with the coordination of multiple computers in remote physical locations in order to accomplish a common objective or task. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... CPU-scavenging or cycle-scavenging systems use machines purchased for other purposes to run batch jobs at night, weekends, and other idle times. ...

Their product's server infrastructure was based on Microsoft Windows, which was considered to have contributed to the lack of scalability of their product. Microsoft Windows is a series of popular proprietary operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ...

Entropia ceased commercial operations in 2004, although no formal announcement to that effect was ever made. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

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. In information technology, a server is a computer system that provides services to other computing systems—called clients—over a network. ... The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime 95 and MPrime, special open source software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a prime power of two. ... Scott Kurowski is an entrepreneurial software technologist and inventor. ...

Entropia also helped with research on AIDS with their FightAIDS@Home project, which was operated in cooperation with The Scripps Research Institute. As of May 2003, that relationship ended and the project continues to operate using the BOINC software infrastructure. The Red Ribbon is a symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human... FightAIDS@Home (Fight AIDS at home) is a distributed computing project for Internet-connected home computers, operated by the Scripps_Research_Institute. ... The Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California is home to notable chemists such as K. C. Nicolaou or Peter Schultz, as well as neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, and Nobel Laureates Kurt Wuthrich and K. Barry Sharpless. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a distributed computing infrastructure intended to be useful to fields beyond SETI. It is being developed by a team based at the University of California, Berkeley led by the project director of SETI@home, David Anderson. ...

See also

• GIMPS
• Distributed computing

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime 95 and MPrime, special open source software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. ... Distributed computing is an aspect of computer science that deals with the coordination of multiple computers in remote physical locations in order to accomplish a common objective or task. ...

External links

• Official Web Site, serving outdated and stale content (last news item added June 2003, and last product release on November 2002).