Grid Computing has been explored over the years in the acedemia and has recently gained the interest of the industry. Applying grid concepts to the commercial world introduces several issues that have not yet been considered seriously. An infrastructure for enabling metering and accounting of grid resource usage is one such essentialrequirement to make commercial grid computing a success. This paper explores various issues and describes alternative architectures that can be applied in the context of recently proposed Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA). The proposed architectures allow grid services to retain the control over the accounting function and the business models used. Enforcement of accounting-based authorization, taking into account certain business models, are also discussed. This paper does not address the issues related to pricing schemes that the grid services may adopt for charging their customers.
By: Vikas Agarwal, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar
Published in: RI02010 in 2002
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