News & what's cool (before 2006)
- 09/04/2006 - 44th Mersenne
prime 232,582,657-1 discovered on PrimeNet
grid, 2% short of
EFF $100,000 prize, in 4,000 CPU-years
- 05/06/2005 -
AAAS Science - PrimeNet
grid
featured example grassroots research supercomputing project
- 05/01/2005 - ACM Queue - seti@home's
Anderson cites PrimeNet a first volunteer distributed
supercomputing grid
- 12/15/2005 - 43rd Mersenne
prime 230,402,457-1 discovered on PrimeNet
grid in 4,500 CPU-years
- 02/18/2005 - 42nd Mersenne
prime 225,964,951-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in
1,500 CPU-years
- 05/15/2004 - 41st Mersenne
prime 224,036,583-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in
2,500 CPU-years
- 11/17/2003 - 40th Mersenne
prime 220,996,011-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in
13,000 CPU-years
- 03/20/2003 - BBC Science interview
for Exec. Producer Adrian Washbourne's documentary on
prime number research
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01/10/2002 - Nature (Vol. 415, p.107) - PrimeNet grid featured
news of 4 million-digit prime number discovery
- 11/15/2002 - Digital Orchid and
Turner Sports Interactive launch NASCAR.com TO GO Real-time race
content on cell phones and PDAs - one of my latest wireless products
- 10/01/2002 - Entropia gets top
marks in PC Magazine's PC Labs tests
- 08/01/2002 - DiscoverCast real-time data technology
acquired by Digital Orchid, Inc.
- 11/14/2001 - 39th Mersenne prime
213466917-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid
- 11/13/2001 - IBM announces
Entropia partnership
- 09/10/2000 - Entropia secures $23 million USD series B
venture investment
- 01/15/2000 - Entropia secures $7 million USD series A
venture investment
- 06/01/1999 - 38th Mersenne prime 26972593-1
discovered on PrimeNet grid in 1,600 CPU-years, winning EFF
$50,000 USD prize
- 01/28/1998 - 37th Mersenne prime 23021377-1
discovered on PrimeNet grid
- 01/01/1997 -
Entropia Internet Certificate Authority Service registered
in the Cambridge Trust Directory
- 12/01/1997 -
Entropia Internet Notary Service providing digital document
'witnessing' services
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