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From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Inter-connection network - The system of logic and conductors that connects the processors in a distributed computer system. Some examples are bus, mesh, hypercube and Omega networks.
Inter-processor communication - The passing of data and information among the processors of a parallel computer during the execution of a parallel program.
Job - This term generally refers to an application sent to a batching system - a job finishes when the application has completed its run.

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