Grid computing is the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains applied to a common task, usually to a scientific, technical, business or Medical problem that requires a larger number of computer processing cycles. Many Grid Middleware distributions, such as Globus, NIMROD, Alchemi etc, are used to build the grids. This paper focuses on the grid application of the management and processing of digital medical images, in particular, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) by using Alchemi tool. Functional MRI is a non-invasive technique used to investigate the functions of the human brain. The computational demand for processing fMRI datasets is usually high. To make the comparison process of brain image data in single system requires more number of computer processing cycles. To cope with this computational demand, has to be developed Alchemi Grid. It provides a high level secured and reliable service environment significantly reduces the processing time and also reduces the CPU cycle utilization

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