1. An autonomic management apparatus for autonomic management of system resources on a grid computing system, the apparatus comprising: a monitor module configured to monitor the grid computing system for a trigger event; 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 a system resource of the grid computing system; and a regulation module configured to autonomically regulate the system resource in response to a recognized trigger event according to one of the plurality of system policies.