Cosm

CosmOriginal author(s)| Adam Beberg

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Developer(s)| Mithral Inc.
Initial release| 1995
Written in| C
Operating system| Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like
Available in| English
Type| Distributed computing
License| Apache License 2.0
Website| www.mithral.com/cosm/

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), 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] Bedberg worked on a Master's degree at Stanford from 2004 through 2011, using Cosm for his research.[10] It was also used for the first several years of the eOn project.

## See also

* distributed.net
* Genome@home
* Folding@home
* Storage@home
* Distributed Computing
* List of distributed computing projects

## References

1. ↑ "USPTO registration number 2734759". US Patent and Trademark Office. July 8, 2003. http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2734759&caseType=US_REGISTRATION_NO&searchType=statusSearch.
2. ↑ "CTM 011483286". Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. May 27, 2013. https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/011483286.
3. ↑ "distributed.net History & Timeline". distributed.net. http://www.distributed.net/history.php.
4. ↑ "distributed.net Articles of Incorporation". Distributed.net. July 2, 1997. http://www.distributed.net/Articles. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
5. ↑ David McNett (April 23, 1999). "A look towards the future". Distributed.net mailing list. Archived from the original on October 3, 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/19991003201439/http://lists.distributed.net/hypermail/announce/0072.html. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
6. ↑ "Innovators Under 35: Adam Beberg, 25", MIT Technology Review, 1999, http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=474, retrieved October 28, 2016
7. ↑ Pande lab (March 26, 2012). "Folding@home \- About". Folding@home. Stanford University. http://folding.stanford.edu/English/About. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
8. ↑ Jesse Victors (November 10, 2011). "Six Native PetaFLOPS". Folding@home. phpBB Group. http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=20011#p198840. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
9. ↑ "Stanford University: Protein Researchers Bring Mac Users into the Fold". Apple. February 2002. Archived from the original on April 4, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040404085734/http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/stanford/. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
10. ↑ "Adam L. Beberg". Researcher page. Stanford University Computer Science Department. http://cs.stanford.edu/people/beberg/. Retrieved October 28, 2016.

## External links

* Official website

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