1. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions for causing a processor to: receive a request to visualize a grid network, the grid network comprising grid managers for managing computational resources on a plurality of computers functioning as grid nodes, the grid managers operating to route resource requests throughout the grid network, the resource requests being requests for the computational resources from the computers in the grid network; and generate, in response to the request, a display comprising: a graph with directional edges and vertices, the vertices representing the grid nodes in the grid network and the directional edges representing hierarchical associations between superior grid managers and inferior grid managers, the superior grid managers routing the resource requests to the inferior grid managers to request the computational resources on the inferior grid managers, wherein the directional edges indicate the routing of the resource requests from the superior grid managers to request the computational resources on the inferior grid managers.