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Sorting is at the core of many database operations, such as index creation, sort-merge joins, and user-requested output sorting. As GPUs are emerging as a promising platform to accelerate various operations, sorting on GPUs becomes a viable…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Elias Stehle , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

A new algorithm, Guidesort, for sorting in the uniprocessor variant of the parallel disk model (PDM) of Vitter and Shriver is presented. The algorithm is deterministic and executes a number of (parallel) I/O operations that comes within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Torben Hagerup

This report discusses the implementation of two parallel algorithms on a distributed memory system for studying vortex dynamics in type-II superconductors. These algorithms are the same as that implemented for classical molecular dynamics…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Mahesh Chandran

Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xinyao Yi

Sorting has been one of the most challenging studied problems in different scientific researches. Although many techniques and algorithms have been proposed on the theory of having efficient parallel sorting implementation, however…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Zahra Khatami , Sungpack Hong , Jinsoo Lee , Siegfried Depner , Hassan Chafi , J. Ramanujam , Hartmut Kaiser

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel model of computation has been used for the architecture independent design and analysis of parallel algorithms whose performance is expressed not only in terms of problem size n but also in terms of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis , Constantinos J. Siniolakis

The advent of high performance computing (HPC) and graphics processing units (GPU), present an enormous computation resource for Large data transactions (big data) that require parallel processing for robust and prompt data analysis. While…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Kato Mivule , Benjamin Harvey , Crystal Cobb , Hoda El Sayed

A random search algorithm intended to solve discrete optimization problems is considered. We outline the main components of the algorithm, and then describe it in more detail. We show how the algorithm can be implemented on parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Nikolai K. Krivulin , Dennis Guster , Charles Hall

String sorting is an important part of tasks such as building index data structures. Unfortunately, current string sorting algorithms do not scale to massively parallel distributed-memory machines since they either have latency (at least)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Florian Kurpicz , Pascal Mehnert , Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

Many parallel algorithms which solve basic problems in computer science use auxiliary space linear in the input to facilitate conflict-free computation. There has been significant work on improving these parallel algorithms to be in-place,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

We explored an uncharted part of the solution space for sorting algorithms: the role of symmetry in divide&conquer algorithms. We found/designed novel simple binary Quicksort and Mergesort algorithms operating in contiguous space which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jens Oehlschlägel

In this note, we present the stability as well as performance analysis of asynchronous parallel computing algorithm implemented in 1D heat equation with CUDA. The primary objective of this note lies in dissemination of asynchronous parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Kooktae Lee , Raktim Bhattacharya

In this paper we introduce RADULS2, the fastest parallel sorter based on radix algorithm. It is optimized to process huge amounts of data making use of modern multicore CPUs. The main novelties include: extremely optimized algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Marek Kokot , Sebastian Deorowicz , Maciej Dlugosz

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

Message Passing Interface (MPI) is widely used to implement parallel programs. Although Windowsbased architectures provide the facilities of parallel execution and multi-threading, little attention has been focused on using MPI on these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Alaa Ismail Elnashar

Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mufakir Qamar Ansari , Mudabir Qamar Ansari

All-pairs similarity problem asks to find all vector pairs in a set of vectors the similarities of which surpass a given similarity threshold, and it is a computational kernel in data mining and information retrieval for several tasks. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Eray Özkural , Cevdet Aykanat

Sequential models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, have long suffered from slow training due to their inherent sequential nature. For many years this bottleneck has persisted, as many thought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Heng Lim , Qi Zhu , Joshua Selfridge , Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim

We present and evaluate GPU Bucket Sort, a parallel deterministic sample sort algorithm for many-core GPUs. Our method is considerably faster than Thrust Merge (Satish et.al., Proc. IPDPS 2009), the best comparison-based sorting algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Frank Dehne , Hamidreza Zaboli