In order to become a member, an organization wishing to participate will have to evaluate whether these policies are sufficient to satisfy their own requirements. And in turn, the grid community will have to evaluate the policies of the petitioning organization to determine whether their policies are sufficient to become a member of the grid community. Policy, or would it be methodology of intrusion detection, and what to do about it. Accounting Accounting stands for accountability. Most large computational centers have some form of accounting.
Accounting is built into most modern operating systems.
It acts as both a method of identification and as a method of tracking usage. In order to be accountable for utilization some measurement methodology must be agreed upon. This must be well defined. Most accounting systems have a method of measuring usage. What is needed in the grid environment is a way to compare resources of diverse architectures.