A Service-Oriented Accounting Architecture on the Grid

The Computational Grid is a promising computing platform for solving the problem of large-scale resource allocation. In order to build large-scale of the grid computing systems, some obvious problems of grid computing, such as: security, resource scheduling and management, authentication and authorization, have attracted more attention and research. Charging and accounting is an important part of grid computing, and will lead to develop the grid computing systems. The aim of this paper is to propose a service-oriented accounting architecture that involves many services interaction on the grid. In this paper, we describe firstly architecture of charging and accounting and its support system. Then, we give briefly an introduction to pricing schemes and accounting policies.