OGSA Resource Usage Service Proposed Working Group
Global Grid Forum, Scheduling and Resource Management Area
Chairs:
Steven Newhouse sjn5@doc.ic.ac.uk
Email list:
sched-wg@gridforum.org
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Web page:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jms/ggf-sched/WG/rus-wg.html
Charter:
Purpose:
To define an OGSA compatible Resource Usage Service and associated
client side and management tools for deployment within an OGSA hosting
environment. This service will track resource usage (accounting in the
traditional UNIX sense) and will not concern itself with payment
for the use of the resource.
Goal:
To enable the tracking of resource usage within Grid Services deployed
within an OGSA environment. As the 'resources' that need to be tracked
(e.g. CPU, time, memory) may be vary between services and over time an
extensible schema will be used to structure this information.
Activity:
a) Definition of service interface to add & search records for accounting
information.
b) Defining a security model that protects and individuals right to
privacy relating to how they used a service.
c) Define a (minimal but extendsible) set of commonly understood
attributes to describe resource usage. (NB: Potentially leverage
existing work in the Accounting RG and the Scheduling Dictionary WG.)
Plan:
- GGF 5: Initiate discussion of this activity with a BOF and a move to
produce a WG charter.
- GGF 6: Contribute resource usage cases (from UK Computational
Economy project) to build on exisiting information in this area within
GGF.
- GGF 6: Provide for detailed discussion an intitial specification of
this service. (NB: An alpha implementation may be available from UK
e-Science activity.)
- GGF 7: Present a revised specification for further discussion. (NB: A
beta implementation will be available from UK e-science activity.)
- GGF 8: Complete initial discussion of service specification for
movement through GGF documents process. (NB: A reference
implementation of this Resource Usage Service should be
available for deployment within an OGSA environment.)
Current Document(s)
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Document History
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Status:
BOF scheduled for GGF-5