IEEE Transactions on Computers
Sorting networks and their applications
AFIPS '68 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 30--May 2, 1968, spring joint computer conference
A methodology for the development of special-purpose function architectures
AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
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Response time in large, inverted file document retrieval systems is determined primarily by the time required to access files of document identifiers on disk and perform the processing associated with a Boolean search request. This paper describes a specialized computer system capable of performing these functions in hardware. Using this equipment, a complicated sample search involving 70 terms and over 67 000 document references can be performed from 13 to 60 times faster than with a conventional machine. Alternatively, many small searches can be processed concurrently with little effect upon system performance. Similar configurations can be applied to standard merging and sorting problems.