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Accounting Architecture overview


The accounting service accumulates information about the usage of Grid resources by the users and by groups of users, including Virtual Organisations as groups of users.

This information allows preparation of statistical reports, to track resource usage for individual users, to discover abuses and to help avoid them.
Accounting information could be used to charge users for the Grid resources they have utilised.

The information available from the accounting service can also be used to implement submission policies based on user quotas or on resource usage (fair share).
In principle it also allows the creation of a real exchange market for the Grid resources and services.
The subsequent economic competition should result in market equilibrium, thereby promoting load balancing on the Grid.

Among the services from other Grid projects that can be compared with the EGEE Accounting Service it is worth mentioning Nimrod-G and the EDG DGAS.
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