About Grid-SAFE
At the start of 2007 a report was commissioned by the JISC to examine the current status of developments in accounting and usage in the UK academic community.
The report’s main recommendations identified two key components that need to be developed in parallel:
- an accounting framework that will assist deployments based on standards specifications;
- a client based usage monitoring/ management framework to provide a common basis for monitoring related activities.
Grid-SAFE's addresses these two needs.
The Grid-SAFE accounting and monitoring software will build on the EPCC SAFE system that currently provides these functions for the HECToR national HPC services.
Grid-SAFE builds upon emerging OGF standards for user accounting and management, in particular:
