| Cosm | |
| Author: | Adam Beberg |
| Developer: | Mithral Inc. |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Programming Language: | C |
| Operating System: | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Distributed computing |
| License: | Apache License 2.0 |
Cosm is a family of open distributed computing software and protocols developed in 1995 led by Adam L. Beberg, and later developed by Mithral Inc. Cosm is a registered trademark of Mithral Inc.[1] [2]
Early work on Cosm lead to Beberg co-founding distributed.net, which was used for cryptographic and mathematical challenges beginning in 1997.[3] [4] Beberg left the governing group of distributed.net in April 1999 to work on Cosm full-time.[5]
The Cosm Client-Server Software Development Kit (CS-SDK) for building volunteer computing projects, along with experience in gathering volunteers gained from distributed.net, was used as the initial software framework for the Genome@home and Folding@home projects at Stanford University.[6] The project grew to over 400,000 simultaneous machines achieving 8 PFLOPS,[7] aiding in protein folding research.[8] The Cosm CS-SDK was also used for the first several years of the eOn project.
Beberg worked towards a Doctorate degree at Stanford from 2004 through 2011, using Cosm for his research.[9]