HiGAF: A Hierarchical Grid Accounting Framework

Grid computing is a promising platform for executing large-scale resource intensive applications. Resource accounting is a basic and important activity in Grid research. In this paper, we propose an accounting framework based on hierarchical design. It comprises two layers of accounting managers: global accounting manager and local accounting manager. The latter provides the former a series of standard interfaces of accounting functionality by wrapping underling legacy accounting systems. Thus different existing accounting systems are allowed to be reused and deployed into Grid environment with not too much effort.