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 first part of the series which talks about introduction and overview of automatic computing.
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