Introduction
EGI Accounting stores user accounting records from various services offered by EGI, such as Cloud, HTC and storage usage. It works thanks to a network of message brokers that transfer usage data from the host to a central repository of information. The data is handled securely and can be consulted online through the EGI Accounting Portal.
EGI council members can use EGI accounting services to account for the resource usage of their own services.
Technical roadmap
The following activities are planned for 2024:
- Migration to the new benchmark HepScore23
- Full Python 3 compliance for the Accounting Repository and clients
The following activities are planned for 2025:
- Implement the compliance of the accounting records of jobs submitted through tokens
- Extending the accounting repository and portal with GPU and Storage accounting.
- Implement finer granularity accounting by:
- tracking originating service (i.e. was the VM created by IM, or DIRAC);
- Group level accounting within a VO;
- Shorter than 1-month time steps in accounting records;
- Ability to report to users about their consumption
- Extending the accounting repository and portal with Datasets and Container accounting
The progress of the technical roadmap is tracked with Jira tickets:
Requirements to be assessed
Here you can find a list of generic requirement that should be assessed for a possible inclusion in the technical roadmap of the service: