Charging and Accounting for Grid Computing System

Grid computing is the key technology of next generation Internet. Today grid research is mostly focus on the communication, security, resource manangement and information management. Charging and accounting is a base activity in a economy society, so that it should become a part of grid computing system in computational economy environment. In this paper, we introduce charging and accounting item in a grid computing system, and propose a method for calculating the cost of a grid usage. This method gives out how to calculate the standardization technology cost of the usage of a job and how to translate the standardization technology cost into currency cost. Further more, we analyse the demands of a charging and accounting system in a computional economy based grid. A architecture of charging and accounting system and its support system is designed in this paper.