An embedded real-time autonomic architecture

Autonomic computing is a set of new architectural goals envisioned by IBM and inspired by the human autonomic system. Autonomic architecture is intended to avoid a management crisis that looms based upon the success of Moore's law. If we continue to increase storage, memory, processing and 10 resources at present rates and manage them the way we have, IBM projects a system administration crisis. The proposed autonomic architecture has four goals for systems: self configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting. In this paper, we examine how autonomic architecture goals apply to real-time embedded systems rather than the enterprise systems that IBM has focused upon.