Optimal Parallel Merging Algorithms on BSR

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  • ISPAN '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
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  • 2000

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Abstract

Merging is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. It is well lcnown that\Omega( N \over p + log log N) time is required to merge two sortedsequences each of length N on CRCW PRAM with pprocessors, where p \leq N log\alpha,N for any constant a. Inthis paper, we describe two optimal O(1) time solutionsto the problem for p = N on BSR (Broadcasting withSelective Reduction). They are the first constant timesolutions to the problem on any model of computation.We also give an optimal solution to the problem forp