US Patent 7546553 Grid landscape component

A method and a graphical user interface (GUI) presents a set of services managing a portion of a computer grid, the GUI including a matrix-like structure with columns and rows, each column representing a computer from a set of computers in the computer grid, each computer from the set of computers having a grid manager, and each row representing a grid manager or other application service, positions of labels in the structure indicating which computer currently runs which grid manager or other application service. The GUI also includes a column representing a first computer from the set of computers running a first grid manager, and one or more columns representing one or more computers from the set of computers running one or more grid managers having an inferior relation with the first grid manager.