Scott Kurowski
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Scott Kurowski is an entrepreneurial software technologist and inventor. In 1997 he founded Entropia
, a venture capital funded company selling grid computing
(or distributed computing
) software. In 2000, he built a grid computing system searching for HIV protease inhibitors for The Scripps Research Institute. In 2002 he helped launch Digital Orchid, a branded mobile wireless digital media solutions company using technology acquired from Discovercast.
, one of the earliest and most successful grid computing projects, researching Mersenne prime
numbers. Scott Kurowski wrote the PrimeNet server software that supports distributed computing
to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software. He is Executive Vice President and board director of Mersenne Research Inc.
Entropia, Inc. (company)
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....
, a venture capital funded company selling grid computing
Grid computing
Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
(or distributed computing
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. In 2000, he built a grid computing system searching for HIV protease inhibitors for The Scripps Research Institute. In 2002 he helped launch Digital Orchid, a branded mobile wireless digital media solutions company using technology acquired from Discovercast.
GIMPS PrimeNet Server
He also continues to run the Internet PrimeNet Server that supports GIMPSGreat Internet Mersenne Prime Search
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available computer software to search for Mersenne prime numbers. The project was founded by George Woltman, who also wrote the software Prime95 and MPrime for the project...
, one of the earliest and most successful grid computing projects, 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. Scott Kurowski wrote the PrimeNet server software that supports distributed computing
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...
to demonstrate Entropia-distributed computing software. He is Executive Vice President and board director of Mersenne Research Inc.