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What You Need To Know Now About Autonomic Computing, Part 3: The Underlying Grid

Overview Imagine that one could describe the business functions as wanted by system to provide and it would take care of itself. Needed software would be located, installed, and configured. Resources would become available when they were needed and freed when they weren't. The four-part series provides an introduction to and overview of autonomic computing, including the underlying grid structure, the autonomic cycle, and concrete examples for logging and tracing and workload management. This is the third part of the series which talks about the underlying grid for automatic computing.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Resources Mgmt., Business Management

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