Unlike what the Wired article was looking for, there was no internal conflict that led to the breakup.
It was simply a matter that Cosm and myself have been headed one way, and others in distributed.net want to head another. So we parted ways. It was the Best option for Cosm and distributed.net both.
My goals since long ago have been to build a general purpose architecture for large scale distributed computing. A system that will allow projects all over the world to get done, while maintaining security and data integrity. That is what Cosm is.
As has always been the plan, Cosm source will be public, both for development reasons, and security/trust issues. This is due to happen in a few more days (May 1), but could not happen until a design and framework were available to guide the code. A lot of very tough problems have had to be solved during that process. And now it's time to make Phase 1 happen.
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Yes, there is a existing project to use distributed computing for real work and allow researchers and others to plug in.
Cosm
Unlike what the Wired article was looking for, there was no internal conflict that led to the breakup.
It was simply a matter that Cosm and myself have been headed one way, and others in distributed.net want to head another. So we parted ways. It was the Best option for Cosm and distributed.net both.
My goals since long ago have been to build a general purpose architecture for large scale distributed computing. A system that will allow projects all over the world to get done, while maintaining security and data integrity. That is what Cosm is.
All the Cosm information that's available is at http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/cosm/ and more is going up every day.
As has always been the plan, Cosm source will be public, both for development reasons, and security/trust issues. This is due to happen in a few more days (May 1), but could not happen until a design and framework were available to guide the code. A lot of very tough problems have had to be solved during that process. And now it's time to make Phase 1 happen.