A Proposal for an Autonomic Grid Management System

This paper presents a proposal for an autonomic grid management system (AGMS) using IBM's Autonomic Toolkit. The AGMS proposed would be knowledgeable on grid workflow patterns be able to sense and change grid resources and services according to a set of grid policies. The AGMS will perform preventative and corrective maintenance procedures on the grid to ensure its workflows are being completed properly. This should result in improved grid service reliability and job submission resiliency.