A Fast Selection Algorithm for Meshes with Multiple Broadcasting

  • Authors:
  • D. Bhagavathi;P. J. Looges;S. Olariu;J. L. Schwing;J. Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

One of the fundamental algorithmic problems in computer science involves selecting thekth smallest element in a collection A of n elements. We propose an algorithm designmethodology to solve the selection problem on meshes with multiple broadcasting. Ourmethodology leads to a selection algorithm that runs in O(n/sup 1/8/(log n)/sup 3/4/))time on a mesh with multiple broadcasting of size n/sup 3/8/(log n)/sup 1/4//spltimes/n/sup 5/8//(log n)/sup 1/4/. This result is optimal over a large class of selectionalgorithms. Our result shows that just as for semigroup computations, selection can bedone faster on suitably chosen rectangular meshes than on square meshes.