unix resource accounting and DARPA requirements

[ss at wanginst.UUCP]

Hi folks, we are considering entering the real world of research
grants - even from the government.  My understanding is that it might
work something like this:
	1. We get a grant from somebody - say DARPA.
	2. They (or somebody) give us some front money.
	3. we buy a machine with that front money.
	4. we let lots of poeple use the machine 'cause the research doesn't
	use all of the cycles.
	5. we charge the non-grant users at the same rate we charge the
	grant users.
	6. say what?  Charge users?  To charge these guys we need to account
	for their use, say connect time, cpu utilization, disk storage,
	pages printed, etc.

So the question is, to all you folks who are using/running DARPA or
other Gov.type grants:  how do you do you charge back?  What software
do you use to do the resource accounting, what do you actually charge
for (not the price, but the resources).

Thanks for any and all.
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