Pilot job accounting and auditing in Open Science Grid

Journal Article · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/GRID.2008.4662789· OSTI ID:935253

Sfiligoi, Igor; Green, Chris; Quinn, Greg; Thain, Greg

The Grid accounting and auditing mechanisms were designed under the assumption that users would submit their jobs directly to the Grid gatekeepers. However, many groups are starting to use pilot-based systems, where users submit jobs to a centralized queue and are successively transferred to the Grid resources by the pilot infrastructure. While this approach greatly improves the user experience, it does disrupt the established accounting and auditing procedures. Open Science Grid deploys gLExec on the worker nodes to keep the pilot-related accounting and auditing information and centralizes the accounting collection with GRATIA.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 935253
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-08-211-CD; TRN: US200815%%319
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMPUTER NETWORKS
ACCOUNTING
AUDITS
QUEUES
Computing