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
Distributed.net is a volunteer computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is governed by Distributed Computing Technologies, Incorporated (DCTI), a non-profit organization under U. ...
, 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
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
. 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.
[{{Cite web , title= Adam L. Beberg , publisher= Stanford University Computer Science Department , work= Researcher page , url= https://cs.stanford.edu/people/beberg/ , accessdate= October 28, 2016]
See also
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List of volunteer computing projects
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distributed.net
Distributed.net is a volunteer computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is governed by Distributed Computing Technologies, Incorporated (DCTI), a non-profit organization under U. ...
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Genome@home
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Folding@home
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Storage@home
Storage@home was a distributed data store project designed to store massive amounts of scientific data across a large number of volunteer machines. The project was developed by some of the Folding@home team at Stanford University, from about 2007 ...
References
External links
Official website
Volunteer computing