Autonomics for grid systems and applications
Manish Parashar · 2008
Emerging pervasive computing and information environments, such as Grids and CDNs, are enabling a new generation of applications, which are based on seamless aggregation and interactions of resources, services and data. However the extreme scale, dynamism and uncertainty of these environments and applications present significant development, configuration and management challenges. Autonomic computing has the potential to fundamentally address these challenges. The goal of autonomic computing is to design and engineer systems that are capable of running themselves, adapting their resources and operations to current workloads and anticipating the needs their users, all with minimal involvement from the users. In this talk, I will introduce autonomic computing and describe how it can be potentially used to address the challenges for Grids and CDNs. I will then introduce relevant solutions being developed as part of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing.