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International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03)
GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing and Integration
Nice, France
April 22-April 26
ISBN: 0-7695-1926-1
Alexander Barmouta, University of Western Australia
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of resources distributed across multiple administrative domains, organizations and enterprises. To accomplish this, Grids need infrastructure that supports various services: security, uniform access, resource management, scheduling, application composition, computational economy, and accounting. Although several initiatives are engaged in the development of Grid technologies, Grid accounting issues are yet to be addressed. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new infrastructure called Grid Bank that provides services for accounting. The support of computational economy and accounting services can lead to a self-regulated accountability in grid computing. This paper presents requirements of Grid accounting and different economic models within which it can operate and proposes a Grid Accounting Services Architecture to meet them. The paper highlights implementation issues with a detailed discussion on the format for various records/databases that the GridBank needs to maintain. It also presents protocols for interaction between the GridBank and various components within Grid computing environments.
Index Terms:
Computational economy, Grid accounting, GridBank, Payment schemes, and Grid Scheduling
Citation:
Alexander Barmouta, Rajkumar Buyya, "GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems Sharing and Integration," ipdps, pp.245a, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03), 2003
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