| 摘要 |
A method is provided for accounting the usage of networked resources and/or services available for invocation in a grid computing architecture, said grid computing architecture including a grid middleware for invoking said services and/or resources, said method comprising the act of receiving at least one resource and/or one service available for invocation, retrieving through a database contract information related to said available resource and/or service, said contract comprising at least cost data for invoking said resource and/or service, collecting from the grid middleware a usage message, said usage message including usage information related to at least one service and/or resource that have been actually invoked on said grid middleware, and accounting the usage based on said usage message and the cost data from the contract information. |
