Genetic algorithm customization for cloud computing VM provisioning help

Hi, am new to genetic algorithm and am having some problems regarding formulation of a provisioning in cloud computing. basically I have a set of tasks and a number of VMs. I have computed a 2D matrix where each cell(i,j) represents the cost of the particular task j when computed on VM i. I need to minimize the cost of allocation and need to allocate the task set to appropriate VMs accordingly. I know it is a fairly simple problem. But I am having problems regarding formulating my objective function, fitness function and population initialisation. I intend to use real values for population to avoid complications. I understand that the population needs to be a randomly created matrix. But what would be the dimension? is it going to be same as my cost matrix. And also how to map my cost matrix values to it. Thank you in advance.

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[sharaf magableh]

can you help me with this problem, thanks alot