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The University Student Registration System: a Case Study inBuilding a High-Availability Distributed Application Using GeneralPurpose ComponentsM. C. Little, S. M. Wheater, D. B. Ingham, C. R. Snow, H. Whitfield and S. K. ShrivastavaDepartment of Computing Science, Newcastle University ,Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, to 1994, Student Registration at Newcastle University involved students being registered in asingle place, where they would present a form which had previously been filled in by the studentand their department. After Registration this information was then transferred to a computerisedformat. The University decided that the entire Registration process was to be computerised for theAutumn of 1994, with the admission and Registration being carried out at the departments of thestudents.
and workstation clusters, thereby obviating the need for any specialised fault tolerant hardware. Key words: available systems, distributed system, fault-tolerance, atomic transactions, replication. 1. Introduction In most British Universities, the process of registering all students as members of the institution is
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