Bitonic Sort on a Mesh-Connected Parallel Computer

  • Authors:
  • D. Nassimi;S. Sahni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

An O(n) algorithm to sort n2elements on an Illiac IV-like n × n mesh-connected processor array is presented. This algorithm sorts the n2elements into row-major order and is an adaptation of Batcher's bitonic sort. A slight modification of our algorithm yields an O(n) algorithm to sort n2elements into snake-like row-major order. Extensions to the case of a j-dimensi