Popular Power was a company founded in January 2000 that sold
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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for
CPU scavenging. 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 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
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
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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