International Business Machines Corporation

Robert J Lewis

Brian M O'Connell

Aaron K Baughman

Thomas Benjamin Harrison

Michael P Lazos

Cody A Clements

Mary C Zabriskie

A method and associated systems for optimizing a computing platform. A processor joins sets of configurable parameters into groups that each identifies a configuration of the computing environment or of a component or subsystem of the computing environment. The processor generates a set of variations of each group, where each variation identifies a candidate configuration of the component, subsystem, or platform, and where each candidate configuration identifies a distinct set of values of the group of parameters associated with that component, subsystem, or platform. Each configuration of this first generation of configurations undergoes a massively parallel iterative procedure that generates a next generation of configurations by performing operations upon the first generation that are similar to those of a natural-selection process. The procedure repeats until successive generations converge, within resource constraints, to a fittest generation that represents an optimal or most nearly optimal configuration of the computing platform.

Optimizing a virtualized computing environment

Using principles of natural selection to optimize a cloud-computing genome

Optimizing a cloud-computing environment

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Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Robert J Lewis