Counting the Cost of FIRE

摘要: Sustaining European experimental facilities for Future Internet research is a significant challenge testbed providers, funding bodies, and customers who depend on their long-term availability. To date, sustainability plans have been dominated by abstract notions of business value unclear models. We argue that this fails to recognise cost accountability the critical element necessary drive efficiency, irrespective whether revenue provided from public or commercial sources. Only through can make operational management decisions are aligned with performance metrics assess financial viability plans. In paper we demonstrate how modelling usage accounting be used support federated cloud experimentation facility.