Fuzzy Project Ideas

• Build an application using the web as a parallel or distributed computer.
• Build an interesting web-based Java applet (but you'll have to convince me that it's "interesting").
• Add some interesting feature to Java, e.g., remote call-by-reference for objects or object mobility.
• Implement a simple thread system.
• Take an existing thread system and extend it in an interesting way.
• Build some kind of clustering support: process or object mobility, remote paging, remote file access.
• Build a simple distributed VM system.
• Build a simple transaction facility.
• Add an intersting new feature to an existing file system.
• Design a more general object mechanism for an existing OS.
• Do a new performance evaluation of some kind of system activity: network, web, file access, etc.