RsdEditor: a graphical user interface for specifying metacomputer components

RsdEditor is a graphical user interface to produce specifications of computational resources. It is used in the RSD (Resource and Service Description) environment for specifying, registering, requesting and accessing resources and services in a metacomputer. RsdEditor was designed to be used by the administrators and users of metacomputing environments. At the administrator level the GUI is used to describe the available computing and networking components of a metacomputer. At the user level RsdEditor is used to specify the characteristics of the computational resources needed to execute a meta-application. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 introduces the RsdEditor. Section 2 shortly presents the RSD environment, and Section 3 describes some features and implementation issues of the RsdEditor.