CONFIGURATION ENGINE

In a distributed computing, object oriented, component based framework, some components may be capable of running some tasks, incapable of running others and capable of running still others, but obtaining only sub-optimal results. Components may already be assigned tasks, and have insufficient capacity remaining to execute additional tasks. A configuration manager seeks to rectify this. The configuration manager gathers information stored in a configuration template associated with each of the components, interrogates the components about their current status and compares the results to a dynamic plan developed by a tasking engine. The configuration engine then assigns tasks to processor managers based on the results obtained by the configuration manager.