New Parallel-Sorting Schemes

  • Authors:
  • F. P. Preparata

  • Affiliations:
  • Coordinated Science Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a family of parallel-sorting algorithms for a multiprocessor system. These algorithms are enumeration sortings and comprise the following phases: 1) count acquisition: the keys are subdivided into subsets and for each key we determine the number of smaller keys (count) in every subset; 2) rank determination: the rank of a key is the sum of the previously obtained counts;