1. A computer device, comprising: a processing environment with at least one processing platform executing an operating system instance including: a policy manager module that identifies a process having an interaction relation between a first component and a second component, identifies an affinity value for the interaction relation representing a sensitivity of the process to a relative location of the first component and the second component, and determines a placement of the first component in relation to the second component based on the affinity value; and a location determination module that registers a location of the first component and the second component.