Dear All,

Please find enclosed an abstract and pointer to recent article from the
Gridbus Project on Grid Accounting Services Architecture.

Comments and suggestions for improvement etc. are welcome.

Thanks
Raj
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GridBank: A Grid Accounting Services Architecture (GASA) for Distributed Systems
Sharing and Integration

Authors:
Alexander Barmouta
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009
barmouta@...

Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
raj@...

Abstract

Computational Grids are emerging as 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 accountability. Many Grid projects have
developed
technologies that provide many of these services with an exception of
accountability. To
overcome this limitation, we propose a new infrastructure called Grid Bank that
provides
services for accounting. This paper presents requirements of Grid accountability
and
different models within which it can operate and proposes Grid Bank Services
Architecture
that meets them. The paper highlights implementation issues with detailed
discussion on
format for various records/database that the GridBank need to maintain. It also
presents
protocols for interaction between GridBank and various components within Grid
computing
environments.

The Project URL: http://www.gridbus.org/

A copy of the GridBank article can be found at:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj/papers/gridbank.pdf

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Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
SEECS Building, Room. 3.38
221 Bouverie St., Carlton
Melbourne, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 9317 (office); +61-3-9571 3629 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-801-720-9272
Email: rajkumar@... | raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj
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Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
SEECS Building, Room. 3.38
221 Bouverie St., Carlton
Melbourne, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 9317 (office); +61-3-9571 3629 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-801-720-9272
Email: rajkumar@... | raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj
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