Chun Fu Raymond Chang

US Patent:

20050091351, Apr 28, 2005

Filed:

Sep 30, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/674996

Inventors:

Peter Badovinatz - Beaverton OR, US
Chun Chang - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Steven Froehlich - Danbury CT, US
Jeffrey Lucash - Hurley NY, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - ARMONK NY

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709223000

Abstract:

An autonomic computing system and method store a set of resource equivalencies in memory, select at least one resource equivalency from the set of resource equivalencies, and use the selected at least one resource equivalency for operating the selected resource as required by an autonomic computing system. The set of equivalent resources can contain a plurality of physically distinct resources that are logically equivalent. Resources are added or removed from the set automatically. Equivalent sets can be nested within an equivalent set.