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1. A computer infrastructure comprising:a computing device including:a system for managing a set of computing devices in the computer infrastructure that evaluate a trustworthiness of one another, the system for managing including: a system for managing membership in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure and a system for managing a trust level for communications between another computing device in the computer infrastructure and other computing devices;wherein the system for managing membership in the sub-group of the computer infrastructure includes:a system for detecting that a threshold number of computing devices has been exceeded for at least one of: the computer infrastructure or a sub-group of the computer infrastructure; anda system for dividing the at least one of: the computer infrastructure or the sub-group of the computer infrastructure into a plurality of sub-groups of computing devices for evaluating trust. 2. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, the computing device further including a system for providing device measurements for the computing device for processing by another computing device in the computer infrastructure. 3. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, the computing device further including a system for evaluating another computing device in the computer infrastructure based on a set of device measurements for the another computing device and a set of reference measurements. 4. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, the system for dividing assigning at least one computing device in the computer infrastructure to a plurality of sub-groups. 5. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, wherein the threshold number is selected based on an impact of the monitoring on a performance of a primary function of each computing device. 6. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, the system for managing membership in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure including:a system for detecting that a number of computing devices in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure has fallen below a threshold number; anda system for reassigning each computing device in the sub-group to a new sub-group. 7. The computer infrastructure of claim 6, wherein the new sub-group includes at least one computing device that is included in at least one additional sub-group. 8. The computer infrastructure of claim 1, wherein the system for managing a trust level for communications between another computing device in the set of computing devices and other computing devices isolates a particular computing device from communicating with other computing devices in response to a failure of the particular computing device. 9. A computer infrastructure comprising:a computing device including:a system for managing a set of computing devices in the computer infrastructure that evaluate a trustworthiness of one another, the system for managing including a system for managing membership in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure; wherein the system for managing membership in the sub-group of the computer infrastructure includes:a system for detecting that a threshold number of computing devices has been exceeded for at least one of: the computer infrastructure or a sub-group of the computer infrastructure; anda system for dividing the at least one of: the computer infrastructure or the sub-group of the computer infrastructure into a plurality of sub-groups of computing devices for evaluating trust. 10. The computer infrastructure of claim 9, the system for managing a set of computing devices further including a system for managing a trust level for communications between another computing device in the computer infrastructure and other computing devices. 11. The computer infrastructure of claim 9, the system for dividing assigning at least one computing device in the computer infrastructure to a plurality of sub-groups. 12. The computer infrastructure of claim 9, wherein the threshold number is selected based on an impact of the monitoring on a performance of a primary function of each computing device. 13. The computer infrastructure of claim 9, the system for managing membership in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure including:a system for detecting that a number of computing devices in a sub-group of the computer infrastructure has fallen below a threshold number; anda system for reassigning each computing device in the sub-group to a new sub-group. 14. The computer infrastructure of claim 13, wherein the new sub-group includes at least one computing device that is included in at least one additional sub-group. 15. A computer infrastructure comprising:a computing device including:a system for managing a set of computing devices in the computer infrastructure that evaluate a trustworthiness of one another, the system for managing including a system for managing a trust level for communications between another computing device in the computer infrastructure and other computing devices, wherein the system for managing the trust level for communications between another computing device in the set of computing devices and other computing devices isolates a particular computing device from communicating with other computing devices in response to a failure of the particular computing device. 16. The computer infrastructure of claim 15, the system for managing a set of computing devices further including a system for enabling a user to modify a set of reference measurements used to determine a corresponding trust level for a computing device. 17. The computer infrastructure of claim 15, the system for managing a set of computing devices further including a system for communicating an updated set of reference measurements to other computing devices in the computer infrastructure.