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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Evaluation of an accounting model for dynamic virtual organizations |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Journal of Grid Computing |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1570-7873 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 2 |
| Page Range | 181 - 204 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Abstract Text | Accounting of Grid resource and service usage determines the central support activity for Grid systems to be adopted as a means for service-oriented computing in Dynamic Virtual Organizations (DVO). An all-embracing study of existing Grid accounting systems has revealed that these approaches focus primarily on technical precision, while they lack a foundation of appropriate economic accounting principles and the support for multi-provider scenarios or virtualization concepts. Consequently, a new, flexible, resource-based accounting model for DVOs was developed, combining technical and economic accounting by means of Activity-based Costing. Driven by a functional evaluation, this paper pursues a full-fledged evaluation of the new, generically applicable Grid accounting model. This is done for the specific environment of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany. Thus, a detailed evaluation methodology and evaluation environment is outlined, leading to actual model-based cost calculations for a defined set of considered Grid services. The results gained are analyzed and respective conclusions on model applicability, optimizations, and further extensions are drawn. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1007/s10723-008-9109-9 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:203 |
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| Additional Information | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |