A grid network consists of a number of (computer) systems connected in a grid topology.
In a regular grid topology, each node in the network is connected with two neighbors
along one or more dimensions
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of nodes is connected to form a circular loop, the resulting topology is known as a
ring. Network systems such as FDDI
? use two counter-rotating token-passing
? rings
to achieve high reliability and performance. In general, when an n-dimensional grid
network is connected circularly in more than one dimension, the resulting network
toplogy is a torus
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nodes along each dimension of a toroidal network is 2, the resulting network is called
a hypercube
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