Professional Development Seminar: Transaction Processing Overview


 
Seminar: Transaction Processing Overview
Lecturer(s): Phil Bernstein, Eric Newcomer
Overview: The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.

The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.

The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).

In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
Seminar Topics:
  • ACID Properties of a transaction
  • Two vs three-tier approach
  • TP systems performance and the TPC-C benchmark
  • Servers: Presentation, Transaction, Database & TP Monitors
  • Workflow controllers
  • Queued transaction processing
  • Products: CICS, IMS, MS Transaction Server, Tuxedo, Encina, ACMS, Pathway/TS, TOP END
  • Standards
  • Commoditization of servers
  • Merging of TP and OO technology
  • Web-based transactions
Lecturer(s) Biography:

Phil Bernstein, Repository Architect for Microsoft Corporation, has more than 20 years experience in transaction processing.

Eric Newcomer is a TP consultant and program manager at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Location: Northeastern University, Boston
Date: Saturday, 03/21/1998
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Pricing: Advanced Registration Price: $75.00 Good until Wednesday, 03/11/1998
Regular Price: $85.00
Session Chair: Jay Conne
Directions:
Books:  
Title: Principles of Transaction Processing
Author(s): Phil Bernstein & Eric Newcomer
Publisher:
List price: $39.95
PDS price: $30.00

 



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