University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
Yongjuan Kang
will defend her thesis
Parallel Methods for Web-Based Distributed Application
Environments
Abstract
As parallel processing has the potential of high
performance, scalability and availability, people are trying to apply
parallel computing methods in web-based distributed computing
environments. We can differentiate three tiers, namely client services,
business services, and data services.
Java’s multithreading provides a very low level mechanism
for writing parallel programs.Java applets running on the client side are a good
example of parallel computing in the first tier. Load balancing is the key
requirement of network infrastructure solutions. COM+ provides dynamic load
balancing for applications for the second tier, business services. Databases are
growing to enormous sizes, to be accessed by large numbers of on-line users at
one time. Parallel databases allow queries to be executed simultaneously in an
attempt to improve performance. This provides a very good approach for the third
tier, data services.
Date: Friday, March 9, 2001
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: 550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ernst
L. Leiss