Patent ID: 8332483

Claim:
An autonomic management apparatus for autonomic management of system resources on a grid computing system, the apparatus comprising: a storage device storing executable code; a processor executing the executable code, the executable code comprising: a monitor module configured to monitor the grid computing system for a predictive trigger event comprising an anticipated change in data flow based on collected historical information; a policy module configured to access one of a plurality of system policies, each of the plurality of system policies corresponding to an operational control parameter of system resources comprising client processor capacity, client storage capacity, and client memory capacity allocated to the grid computing system, wherein a plurality of clients both provide the system resources and employ the system resources and the plurality of system policies comprises a system prediction policy; and a regulation module configured to autonomically adjust a system resource allocated to the grid computing system from a client in response to the anticipated change in the data flow and modify a client fee for participation in the grid computing system in response to the adjustment, wherein the client initiates a grid application in response to the anticipated change in data flow, the client fee is proportional to a level of the system resources contributed by the client and a level of grid system demand, and the client fee is based a client use of the grid system selected from the group consisting of instantaneous use, average use, maximum use, minimum use, planned use, reserved use, and peak use.