N2Sky - Neural Networks as Services in the Clouds
It addresses the problem of facilitating neural network research for both novice and experienced users by offering a Cloud-based service-oriented environment, though it appears incremental in integrating existing paradigms.
The paper introduces N2Sky, a system that provides a framework for exchanging neural network knowledge and objects through a virtual organization environment using federated Clouds, enabling users to conduct neural network research easily.
We present the N2Sky system, which provides a framework for the exchange of neural network specific knowledge, as neural network paradigms and objects, by a virtual organization environment. It follows the sky computing paradigm delivering ample resources by the usage of federated Clouds. N2Sky is a novel Cloud-based neural network simulation environment, which follows a pure service oriented approach. The system implements a transparent environment aiming to enable both novice and experienced users to do neural network research easily and comfortably. N2Sky is built using the RAVO reference architecture of virtual organizations which allows itself naturally integrating into the Cloud service stack (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) of service oriented architectures.