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.