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Distributed Accounting Working Group. Global Grid Forum I March 6 th 2001 Amsterdam, Netherlands. Welcome. Introductions Summary from past forums Charter discussion Document discussions will run for both sessions General discussion Actions for next forum
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Distributed AccountingWorking Group Global Grid Forum I March 6th 2001 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Welcome • Introductions • Summary from past forums • Charter discussion • Document discussions will run for both sessions • General discussion • Actions for next forum • 2nd meeting from 16:00 – 17:30 in Room F320 (Sterren Kunde)
Introductions • Chairs • Tom Hacker (University of Michigan) hacker@umich.edu • Bill Thigpen (NASA Ames Research Center) bthigpen@arc.nasa.gov • Mailing List – accounts-wg@gridforum.org • Web Site(s) – http://www.gridforum.orghttp://www.nas.nasa.gov/~thigpen/accounts-wg
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • GFIII • GFIV • GFV • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • About six people got together and decided that we should move toward getting a coordinated accounting infrastructure • GFII • GFIII • GFIV • GFV • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • Decided to have a paper ready for the following forum and to have a meeting between some of the major stake holders • GFIII • GFIV • GFV • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • GFIII • Narrowed the focus of the group and decided on developing a current practices and defined job log • GFIV • GFV • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • GFIII • GFIV • Laura presented initial results from current practices and a list of action items • GFV • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • GFIII • GFIV • GFV • Charter , Account Templates on the Grid appeared • Distributed Accounting was presented to full forum • GGFI
What has been happening • GFI • GFII • GFIII • GFIV • GFV • GGFI • Is there a European or Asian Interest • Large document count • Bright outlook
Document Review • Type of document • Summary of content (high lights) • Comments on documents • Recommendation for disposition • Action items
Charter • This is a charter • Was approved in GFV • Summary • Develop a straw-man grid accounting architecture • Define other interactions with grid components and existing systems minimizing the impact • Create a specification that could be used to build and evaluate distributed accounting prototypes • Identify agency/university/corporate concerns that must be addressed and recommend solutions. In particular, concerns include sharing resources in an open Grid environment, and managing Grid use of their resources.
Charter (cont) • Discussion • Recommendations • Actions
Documents to Review • Account Allocations on the Grid (Hacker, Athey) • A Case for Economy Grid Architecturefor Service Oriented Grid Computing (Buyya, Abramson, Giddy) • Distributed Accounting on the Grid (Thigpen, Hacker) • Resource Accounting – Current Practices (McGinnis) • Simplifying Administration and Management Practices in the Polish National Cluster (Kupczyk, Meyer, Wolniewicz)
General Discussion • European involvement • …
Accomplishments • We covered 5 documents. Overall they were very good. • The Charter and Simplifying Administration and Management Practices in the Polish National Cluster were approved as is to pass on to the steering committee. (Charter and Implimentation document) • Account Allocations on the Grid has some minor edits needed and Distributed Accounting on the Grid needs some wordsmithing. Both documents will have word versions placed on the web.
Accomplishments • Resource Accounting – Current Practices was well done but needs more sites. UofM, NCSA, and PSNC will be sending in information • Another document is being started to bridge the gap between current practice and market driven account practices. • Met with Cees de Laat co-chair of the AAA (authentication, authorization, and accounting) group in IRTF and will be coordinating documentation
Distributed Accounting Working Group • 6 documents were in the package, 5 were reviewed (overall, very good) • 2 were recommended to be forwarded to the committee, 2 will be edited, and 1 is receiving more input • The need for another document was decided and assigned.