Grid accounting service: state and future development

20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics

物理学;计算机科学

Levshina, T.^1 ; Sehgal, C.^1 ; Bockelman, B.^2 ; Weitzel, D.^2 ; Guru, A.^2

Scientific Computing Division, Fermilab, Batavia

IL

60510, United States^1

Holland Computer Center, University Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln

NE

68588, United States^2

关键词: Cyber infrastructures;    Development activity;    Distributed infrastructure;    Grid accounting services;    Open science grid;    Resource providers;    Resource utilizations;    University of Nebraska-Lincoln;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032056/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032056

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

During the last decade, large-scale federated distributed infrastructures have been continually developed and expanded. One of the crucial components of a cyber-infrastructure is an accounting service that collects data related to resource utilization and identity of users using resources. The accounting service is important for verifying pledged resource allocation per particular groups and users, providing reports for funding agencies and resource providers, and understanding hardware provisioning requirements. It can also be used for end-to-end troubleshooting as well as billing purposes. In this work we describe Gratia, a federated accounting service jointly developed at Fermilab and Holland Computing Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Open Science Grid, Fermilab, HCC, and several other institutions have used Gratia in production for several years. The current development activities include expanding Virtual Machines provisioning information, XSEDE allocation usage accounting, and Campus Grids resource utilization. We also identify the direction of future work: improvement and expansion of Cloud accounting, persistent and elastic storage space allocation, and the incorporation of WAN and LAN network metrics.