Guidesort: Simpler Optimal Deterministic Sorting for the Parallel Disk Model

07/30/2018
by   Torben Hagerup, et al.
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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 constant factor C of the optimum. The algorithm and its analysis are simpler than those proposed in previous work, and the achievable constant factor C of essentially 3 appears to be smaller than for all other known deterministic algorithms, at least for plausible parameter values.

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