Collaborative Research: Distributed Account Management Middleware

这是一个合作项目，涉及伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校和波士顿大学。 该项目将构建、部署、测试和打包一个面向中间件的分布式账户管理系统。 该系统支持在异构网格环境中实现分布式帐户管理、资源分配、使用计费和监控功能所必需的网格启用系统之间的信息交换。 该系统将耦合到网格事务系统，以形成一个完全可操作的、支持网格的参考实现。 以分布式方式管理用户帐户、提供对其资源的访问控制、管理分配和生成使用报告的能力对于网格的扩展至关重要。 所提出的系统可用于构建一个高度自动化的、可扩展的账户管理系统，该系统将跨不同的计算系统工作。该软件将作为一个开放源代码的发行包，供网格社区进一步开发和调整。

This is a collaborative project involving University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Boston University. The project will build, deploy, test and package a middleware-oriented distributed account management system. The system supports the information exchange between grid-enabled systems that are necessary to implement distributed account management, resource allocation, usage accounting, and monitoring functions in a heterogeneous grid environment. The system will be coupled to the a grid transactions system to form a completely operational, grid-enabled reference implementation. The ability to manage user accounts, provide access control over its resources, manage allocations and generate usage reports in a distributed fashion is critical to the expansion of the grid. The proposed system can be used to build a highly automated, scalable account management system that will work across disparate computing systems. The software will be packaged as an open-source distribution for further development and adaptation by the grid community.