Popular Power was a company founded in January 2000 that sold
distributed computing software for
CPU scavenging
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. The company was led by Marc Hedlund, CEO, and Nelson Minar, CTO.
The "Popular Power Worker" software was a downloadable Java-based application that Internet users could install onto their computers. It allowed users' computers to participate in a non-profit project to develop an
influenza
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vaccine.
Although Popular Power was able to raise $1.6 million in
angel round funding, it was unable to close the venture capital it needed to continu
As a result, it had to permanently shut down operations in March 2001.
See also
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Distributed computing
External links
You Got the Power(Aug 2000)
(03/19/2001).
Defunct software companies of the United States
Grid computing products
Software companies established in 2000
Software companies disestablished in 2001
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