Cosm is a family of open

distributed computing Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commu ...

software and protocols developed in 1995 led by Adam L. Beberg, and later developed by Mithral Inc. Cosm is a registered

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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 Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes in exchange for credit points. The fundamental idea behind it is that a modern desktop ...

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 Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. This includes the process of protein folding and the movements ...

projects at

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. The project grew to over 400,000 simultaneous machines achieving 8 PFLOPS, aiding in

protein folding Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after Protein biosynthesis, synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of Amino acid, amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered protein tertiary structure, t ...

research. The Cosm CS-SDK was also used for the first several years of the eOn project. Beberg worked towards a

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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

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Volunteer computing

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