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K-Way Bitonic Sort

  • Toshio Nakatani
  • , Shing Tsaan Huang
  • , Bruce W. Arden
  • , Satish K. Tripathi
  • Princeton University
  • National Tsing Hua University
  • University of Rochester

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Abstract

This paper presents k-way bitonic sort, which is a generalization of Batcher's bitonic sort. This algorithm is based on a 4-way decomposition instead of a two-way decomposition. We prove that Batcher's bitonic sequence decomposition theorem still holds with this multiway decomposition. This leads to applications of sorting networks with bitonic sorters of arbitrary or mixed sizes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)283-288
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Computers
Volume38
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1989

Keywords

  • Bitonic sort
  • parallel processing
  • parallel sorting

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