News & what's cool (before 2006)

• 09/04/2006 - 44th Mersenne prime 2^32,582,657-1 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 2^30,402,457-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in 4,500 CPU-years
• 02/18/2005 - 42nd Mersenne prime 2^25,964,951-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in 1,500 CPU-years
• 05/15/2004 - 41st Mersenne prime 2^24,036,583-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in 2,500 CPU-years
• 11/17/2003 - 40th Mersenne prime 2^20,996,011-1 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
• 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 2^13466917-1 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 2^6972593-1 discovered on PrimeNet grid in 1,600 CPU-years, winning EFF $50,000 USD prize
• 01/28/1998 - 37th Mersenne prime 2^3021377-1 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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