Tracing Resource Usage over Heterogeneous Grid Platforms: A Prototype RUS Interface for DGAS

Piro, Rosario M.; Pace, Michael; Ghiselli, A.; Guarise, Andrea; Luppi, E.; Patania, G.; Tomassetti, L.; Werbrouck, A.

doi:10.1109/e-science.2007.79

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“…It has been designed as a full featured Grid accounting system both for computing and storage usage records, able to scale to national Grids and support multiple Grid Virtual Organizations (VO). It can be used to account common usage records like CPU time, memory occupation, storage, etc., as well as an Economic accounting system, considering the cost of jobs executed by users on single Grid resources[10] [11].…”

Section: B Distributed Grid Accounting System (Dgas)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gustav: A Lightweight Approach to CPU Accounting in Distributed Systems

Barbera

Giorgio

Hwang

et al. 2010

2010 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

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Geographically distributed computational infrastructures, based on the grid paradigm, are increasingly coming out of the research sphere where they originated, candidating themselves as a low-effort business solution for accessing and using vaste computating infrastructures, much larger than those small-medium enterprises can usually afford building "in house".In such scenario, accounting and billing systems play a key role, as any business model cannot opt out of instruments showing how many resources have been used in a given period of time and by whom.For this reason, several accounting systems have been developed in the last years, for various grid middleware. Although each of them has its own features, they are generally targeted for large-size infrastructures, because of the comprehensive range of results available and the vast effort to implement and deploy them. However, sometimes different needs arise, especially for smaller sites participating to large distributed infrastructures. Gustav aims to fullfil some of these requirements in a simple and reliable way, and could be considered as an alternative approach to CPU accounting for grid sites.

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Section: B Distributed Grid Accounting System (Dgas)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gustav: A Lightweight Approach to CPU Accounting in Distributed Systems

Barbera

Giorgio

Hwang

et al. 2010

2010 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

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“…In the Open Science Grid (OSG) [1] project, an accounting system called Gratia [2] operates at each participating site. Accounting Processor for Event Logs (APEL) [3] and Distributed Grid Accounting System (DGAS) [4] are two accounting systems developed by the World-wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) [5] and the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) [6] projects. These two accounting systems became part of the gLite middleware, the common software stacks shared by both EGEE and WLCG projects.…”

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Developing Resource Usage Service in WLCG

Chen

Khan

Wills

et al. 2011

IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.

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Abstract-According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the World-wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project, participating sites are required to provide resource usage or accounting data to the Grid Operational Centre (GOC) to enrich the understanding of how shared resources are used, and to provide information for improving the effectiveness of resource allocation. As a multi-grid environment, the accounting process of WLCG is currently enabled by four accounting systems, each of which was developed independently by constituent grid projects. These accounting systems were designed and implemented based on project-specific local understanding of requirements, and therefore lack interoperability. In order to automate the accounting process in WLCG, three transportation methods are being introduced for streaming accounting data metered by heterogeneous accounting systems into GOC at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK, where accounting data are aggregated and accumulated throughout the year. These transportation methods, however, were introduced on a per accounting-system basis, i.e. targeting at a particular accounting system, making them hard to reuse and customize to new requirements. This paper presents the design of WLCG-RUS system, a standards-compatible solution providing a consistent process for streaming resource usage data across various accounting systems, while ensuring interoperability, portability, and customization.

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Accounting as a Requirement for Market‐Oriented Grid Computing

Guarise

Piro

2009

Market‐Oriented Grid and Utility Computing

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Tracing Resource Usage over Heterogeneous Grid Platforms: A Prototype RUS Interface for DGAS

Cited by 6 publications

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Gustav: A Lightweight Approach to CPU Accounting in Distributed Systems

Gustav: A Lightweight Approach to CPU Accounting in Distributed Systems

Developing Resource Usage Service in WLCG

Accounting as a Requirement for Market‐Oriented Grid Computing

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