1. A method for execution by a computing core, the method comprises: detecting selection of an application; addressing a distributed application memory to retrieve a plurality of error coded program data slices and a plurality of error coded configuration data slices; reconstructing a data segment of a program from the plurality of error coded program data slices using an error coding dispersal function; reconstructing a data segment of configuration information from the plurality of error coded configuration data slices using a second error coding dispersal function; and storing the data segment of the program and the data segment of the configuration information in main memory of the computing core.