Dealing with design complexity
Designing large-scale distributed systems is inherently complex. Typical systems have a large number of subsystems, processes, and threads developed in isolation from each other. The design is divided among groups with differing system performance goals, different schemes for determining priorities, and different approaches to runtime optimization.
Providing security
Many systems are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. For example, a malicious user could bombard a system with requests that need to be processed by one process. When under attack, this process overloads the CPU and effectively starves the rest of the system.
Debugging
Adaptive partitioning can even make debugging an embedded system easier—during development or deployment—by providing an “emergency door” into the system.