Artificial Neural Networks and the Grid

We introduce a novel system for the usage of neural network resources on a world-wide basis. Our approach employs the upcoming infrastructure of the Grid as a transparent environment to allow users the exchange of information (neural network objects, neural network paradigms) and exploit the available computing resources for neural network specific tasks leading to a Grid based, world-wide distributed, neural network simulation system, which we call N2Grid. Our system uses only standard protocols and services in a service oriented architecture, aiming for a wide dissemination of this Grid application.