An Economy-Based Accounting System for Grid Computing Environments

Grid computing is the key technology of next generation Internet. A promising way of solving the problem of resource allocation in a Grid environment is an accounting procedure based upon a computational economy model. Charging and accounting is a base activity in an economy society, so it is an important part of grid computing system in computational economy environment. In this paper, we present firstly architecture of changing and accounting system, which support an economy-based approach to regulating the distribution of the resource. Afterward, we discuss briefly key technologies of the grid charging and accounting in a grid computing system, and accounting mechanism.