Improved Deterministic Parallel Padded Sorting

  • Authors:
  • Ka Wong Chong;Edgar A. Ramos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ESA '98 Proceedings of the 6th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Given an input array of n real numbers, sorting with padding λ consists in writing those numbers in order in an array of size (1+λR)n, thus leaving λn entries empty. Only comparisons are allowed between the numbers to be sorted. We describe an algorithm that, with nk processors in the CRCW PRAM model, sorts the input array with padding o(1) using time O(logkn log*(logkn) + loglogk). This improves a previous algorithm with time bound O(logk n (loglog k)3 ċ 2C(log*n-log*k)) The best known lower bound is Ω(logk n).