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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Amin Amini

In our study we implemented and compared seven sequential and parallel sorting algorithms: bitonic sort, multistep bitonic sort, adaptive bitonic sort, merge sort, quicksort, radix sort and sample sort. Sequential algorithms were…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Darko Bozidar , Tomaz Dobravec

Median filtering is a non-linear smoothing technique widely used in digital image processing to remove noise while retaining sharp edges. It is particularly well suited to removing outliers (impulse noise) or granular artifacts (speckle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Louis Sugy

In view of the existing limitations of sequential computing, parallelization has emerged as an alternative in order to improve the speedup of numerical simulations. In the framework of evolutionary problems, space-time parallel methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Iñigo Jimenez-Ciga , Laura Portero

Sorting is a fundamental operation in computer science and is a bottleneck in many important fields. Sorting is critical to database applications, online search and indexing,biomedical computing, and many other applications. The explosive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Dmitri I. Arkhipov , Di Wu , Keqin Li , Amelia C. Regan

We prove that parallel processing with homogeneous processors is logically equivalent to fast serial processing. The reverse proposition can also be used to identify obscure opportunities for applying parallelism. To our knowledge, this…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Neil J. Gunther

We present a novel parallelisation scheme that simplifies the adaptation of learning algorithms to growing amounts of data as well as growing needs for accurate and confident predictions in critical applications. In contrast to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Michael Kamp , Mario Boley , Olana Missura , Thomas Gärtner

Spike sorting is a class of algorithms used in neuroscience to attribute the time occurences of particular electric signals, called action potential or spike, to neurons. We rephrase this problem as a particular optimization problem : Lasso…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Laurent Dragoni , Rémi Flamary , Karim Lounici , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

Many academic disciplines - including information systems, computer science, and operations management - face scheduling problems as important decision making tasks. Since many scheduling problems are NP-hard in the strong sense, there is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Gerhard Rauchecker , Guido Schryen

On modern parallel architectures, the cost of synchronization among processors can often dominate the cost of floating-point computation. Several modifications of the existing methods have been proposed in order to keep the communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qinmeng Zou , Frederic Magoules

Real-time decoding is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computing but likely requires specialized hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), whose parallelism can alter relative algorithmic performance. We analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Satvik Maurya , Thilo Maurer , Markus Bühler , Drew Vandeth , Michael E. Beverland

This work presents a comparison for the performance of sequential sorting algorithms under four different modes of execution, the sequential processing mode, a conventional multi-threading implementation, multi-threading with OpenMP Library…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mohammad Fasha

We present an $O(n\sqrt{\log n})$ time and linear space algorithm for sorting real numbers. This breaks the long time illusion that real numbers have to be sorted by comparison sorting and take $\Omega (n\log n)$ time to be sorted.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yijie Han

Merging two sorted arrays is a prominent building block for sorting and other functions. Its efficient parallelization requires balancing the load among compute cores, minimizing the extra work brought about by parallelization, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Oded Green , Saher Odeh , Yitzhak Birk

We present a sorting algorithm that works in-place, executes in parallel, is cache-efficient, avoids branch-mispredictions, and performs work O(n log n) for arbitrary inputs with high probability. The main algorithmic contributions are new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Michael Axtmann , Sascha Witt , Daniel Ferizovic , Peter Sanders

We revisit the well-known problem of sorting under partial information: sort a finite set given the outcomes of comparisons between some pairs of elements. The input is a partially ordered set P, and solving the problem amounts to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Jean Cardinal , Samuel Fiorini , Gwenaël Joret , Raphaël Jungers , J. Ian Munro

The parallel ordering of large graphs is a difficult problem, because on the one hand minimum degree algorithms do not parallelize well, and on the other hand the obtainment of high quality orderings with the nested dissection algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-10 Cédric Chevalier , François Pellegrini

We discuss how string sorting algorithms can be parallelized on modern multi-core shared memory machines. As a synthesis of the best sequential string sorting algorithms and successful parallel sorting algorithms for atomic objects, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Timo Bingmann , Peter Sanders

Emerging memory technologies have a significant gap between the cost, both in time and in energy, of writing to memory versus reading from memory. In this paper we present models and algorithms that account for this difference, with a focus…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Shuffling is the process of rearranging a sequence of elements into a random order such that any permutation occurs with equal probability. It is an important building block in a plethora of techniques used in virtually all scientific…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manuel Penschuck