Your hardware resources are likely to be distributed unevenly across your SP System, with some nodes equipped for greater processing capacity and I/O than others. For this reason you might want to charge different usage fees for different nodes. You might also want to consolidate all accounting records, for the entire SP system, or for groups of nodes.
One way to make efficient use of the nodes in your SP system is to logically partition them so that each pool supports a different type of workload and is considered a separate management domain. The pooling of nodes according to configuration or workload type is the concept behind the accounting class. SP accounting allows you to logically group SP nodes with similar operating characteristics into an accounting class for which the same charge fee applies.
You might also want to charge a different usage fee for compute-intensive jobs when they demand exclusive use of one or more nodes. SP System accounting provides a mechanism for treating these jobs separately as well.
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To run the commands specified in this chapter, you must be logged in as the root user with write access to the SDR. |