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][6]
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.[7] The project grew to over 400,000 simultaneous machines achieving 8 PFLOPS,[8] aiding in protein folding research.[9] 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.[10]
^David McNett (April 23, 1999). "A look towards the future". Distributed.net mailing list. Archived from the original on October 3, 1999. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
