MULTITHREADED TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Distributed operating systems are potentially more powerful than tradi tional operating systems due to their advantages of fault tolerance, p arallelism, scalability, reliability, resource sharing and availabilit y. The price to pay for such power is the complexity encountered in so ftware design and implementation of such systems. Various software too ls like Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) have been devised to help simplif y the process of building distributed applications. Light-weight proce sses or threads is another such tool that helps improve system perform ance. In this project, support for atomic transactions has been provid ed on an existing RPC system. By incorporating a multithreaded archite cture in this system, the goal of improving performance has also been attempted. A traditional banking system has been prototyped along the above goals of combining high performance with support for atomic tran sactions in distributed systems. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc.