Generally, each accounting record, that in some form describes the resources consumed by a service request, can be called a Usage Record (as we do in this article). However, the Usage Record (UR) is also a specific, syntactically well-defined XML document (Mach et al., 2006) for job usage information, that is defined by the UR Working Group of the Open Grid Forum (OGF).
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Resource Usage Accounting in Grid Computing
Rosario M. Piro (INFN and University of Torino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch018
Abstract
Large, geographically distributed and heterogeneous computing infrastructures, such as the Grid, often span multiple organizations and administrative domains. In such infrastructures, resource usage accounting, i.e. keeping track of the resources consumed by single users or entire organizations, is a non-trivial but very important task. This chapter introduces some general aspects and discusses the fundamental requirements that need to be fulfilled in order to guarantee an accurate resource usage accounting. Typical accounting procedures and current practices are described along with other related issues such as the normalization of resource usage information, the standardization of accounting interfaces, billing and charging, resource pricing, market-oriented resource allocation and economic scheduling.