How is grid computing charged back to different cost centers?
The Base One architecture fits in well with standard usage monitoring and accounting software, making it possible to establish custom charge-backs for each grid application, without additional programming. What makes it easy is the way that the Batch Processing System has total control over which grid applications are permitted, on whose behalf, and on which machines. Thus there is a straightforward way, using familiar, conventional accounting software, to ensure that expenses for centralized IT resources are appropriately borne by the departments consuming those services. All that’s required is to associate different batch applications with different cost centers. Any Batch Job Server machine can also perform processing on behalf of multiple Virtual Supercomputers, simply by running multiple batch applications simultaneously, each accessing a different set of Batch Job records. This sort of arrangement provides more flexibility in automatic charge-back accounting, still without progra
