Cosm (software)
Family of open distributed computing software and protocols
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::summary Family of open distributed computing software and protocols ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox software"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 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 |
| website | |
| license | Apache License 2.0 |
| :: |
| name = Cosm | logo = | 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 | website = | 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.
Early work on Cosm lead to Beberg co-founding distributed.net, which was used for cryptographic and mathematical challenges beginning in 1997. Beberg left the governing group of distributed.net in April 1999 to work on Cosm full-time.
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. The project grew to over 400,000 simultaneous machines achieving 8 PFLOPS, aiding in protein folding research. 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.
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- (February 2002). "Stanford University: Protein Researchers Bring Mac Users into the Fold". Apple.
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