An Economy-based Accounting Infrastructure for the DataGrid

  • Authors:
  • Rosario M. Piro;Andrea Guarise;Albert Werbrouck

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GRID '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A distributed grid computing environment, like the EuropeanDataGrid (EDG), that manages enormous numbersof computing resources (in terms of processing power, diskspace, memory usage, etc.) and astronomical amounts ofscientific data, requires mechanisms for a balanced accessof many thousands of simultaneous users. The DataGrid AccountingSystem (DGAS), that we present in this paper, isdesigned to support an economy-based approach to regulatingthe distribution of the resources among the authorizedGrid users. We describe two possible models for resourcepricing and a utility function for economic brokering.