Mithral Inc. is an American company founded in 1995 by Adam L. Beberg. Mithral currently specializes in distributed systems and software infrastructure, but also has a history in security and web applications. It was originally founded as Mithral Communications & Design Inc, but was shortened when the company focus changed.

Some of the ideas and technologies behind the company's primary product line Cosm, initially developed in 1995-96, were used in the volunteer distributed computing projects distributed.net

Distributed.net

distributed.net is a worldwide distributed computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is officially recognized as a non-profit organization under U.S...

, Folding@home

Folding@home

Folding@home is a distributed computing project designed to use spare processing power on personal computers to perform simulations of disease-relevant protein folding and other molecular dynamics, and to improve on the methods of doing so...

, and EON among others.