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Semisort is a fundamental algorithmic primitive widely used in the design and analysis of efficient parallel algorithms. It takes input as an array of records and a function extracting a \emph{key} per record, and reorders them so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Xiaojun Dong , Yunshu Wu , Zhongqi Wang , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Daniel Bascones , Borja Morcillo

Arrival of multicore systems has enforced a new scenario in computing, the parallel and distributed algorithms are fast replacing the older sequential algorithms, with many challenges of these techniques. The distributed algorithms provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Rajendra Purohit , K R Chowdhary , S D Purohit

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Mirko Rahn , Peter Sanders , Johannes Singler

Bucket sort and RADIX sort are two well-known integer sorting algorithms. This paper measures empirically what is the time usage and memory consumption for different kinds of input sequences. The algorithms are compared both from a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Panu Horsmalahti

Today's PCs can directly manipulate numbers not longer than 64 bits because the size of the CPU registers and the data-path are limited. Consequently, arithmetic operations such as addition, can only be performed on numbers of that length.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Aziz Barbar

Sorting has been a profound area for the algorithmic researchers and many resources are invested to suggest more works for sorting algorithms. For this purpose, many existing sorting algorithms were observed in terms of the efficiency of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri , Kadhim Al-Attar , Mazin Nasser

Many emerging computer applications require the processing of large numbers, larger than what a CPU can handle. In fact, the top of the line PCs can only manipulate numbers not longer than 32 bits or 64 bits. This is due to the size of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Aziz Barbar

We present sorting algorithms that represent the fastest known techniques for a wide range of input sizes, input distributions, data types, and machines. A part of the speed advantage is due to the feature to work in-place. Previously, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Michael Axtmann , Sascha Witt , Daniel Ferizovic , Peter Sanders

We introduce and analyse a new, extremely simple, randomised sorting algorithm: - choose a pair of indices $\{i, j\}$ according to some distribution $q$; - sort the elements in positions $i$ and $j$ of the array in ascending order. Choosing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sam Olesker-Taylor

The paper introduces RADULS, a new parallel sorter based on radix sort algorithm, intended to organize ultra-large data sets efficiently. For example 4G 16-byte records can be sorted with 16 threads in less than 15 seconds on Intel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Marek Kokot , Sebastian Deorowicz , Agnieszka Debudaj-Grabysz

A generalization of the heapsort algorithm is proposed. At the expense of about 50% more comparison and move operations for typical cases, the dualheap sort algorithm offers several advantages over heapsort: improved cache performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-21 Greg Sepesi

We design and implement parallel prefix sum (scan) algorithms using Ascend AI accelerators. Ascend accelerators feature specialized computing units: the cube units for efficient matrix multiplication and the vector units for optimized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bartłomiej Wróblewski , Gioele Gottardo , Anastasios Zouzias

Integer sorting is a fundamental problem in computer science. This paper studies parallel integer sort both in theory and in practice. In theory, we show tighter bounds for a class of existing practical integer sort algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiaojun Dong , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Sorting has been a profound area for the algorithmic researchers and many resources are invested to suggest more works for sorting algorithms. For this purpose, many existing sorting algorithms were observed in terms of the efficiency of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri , Kadhim Al-Attar , Mazin Nasser

Cloud database systems, particularly their middleware and query execution layers, use sorting as a core operation in query processing, indexing and join execution. Distribution-dependence and limited parallelism are key issues inherent in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Michael Dang'ana

In this paper, a sorting technique is presented that takes as input a data set whose primary key domain is known to the sorting algorithm, and works with an time efficiency of O(n+k), where k is the primary key domain. It is shown that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Udayan Khuarana

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

Sorting algorithms are the deciding factor for the performance of common operations such as removal of duplicates or database sort-merge joins. This work focuses on 32-bit integer keys, optionally paired with a 32-bit value. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Jan Wassenberg , Peter Sanders

This paper investigates the parallelization of Dijkstra's algorithm for computing the shortest paths in large-scale graphs using MPI and CUDA. The primary hypothesis is that by leveraging parallel computing, the computation time can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Boyang Song