Getting Started - Project 0

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Project Information

CS/INFO 530 has a substantial, multi-part programming project, which will be done individually.

Individual projects is a new feature, and merits some discussion in lecture.

This semester we want to use the loaner laptops

Your project will:

• support atomic transactions.
• support authenticated sessions and encrypted data.
• support a mix of transactions that includes some very frequent small transactions as well as less frequent large transactions.
• be scalable–you should be able to argue on paper and to show experimentally that your design could scale to large numbers of users simply by adding hardware. This argues that large transactions should perform well, and that large numbers of small transactions should perform well, achieving a high degree of parallelism.
• be highly available–your design should allow for appropriate replication/redundancy, failover and queueing techniques to eliminate as many single points of failure as possible.
• involve integrating a simulated (i.e. supplied by us) legacy application into the site functionality.

There will be a “default” project with checkpoints that everyone will be expected to implement. In addition, there will be a few optional extensions you can choose from, or design your own.