1993 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Parallel Sorting of Large Data Volumes on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
verfasst von : Markus Pawlowski, Rudolf Bayer
Erschienen in: Parallel Computer Architectures
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The use of multiprocessor architectures requires the parallelization of sorting algorithms. A parallel sorting algorithm based on horizontal parallelization is presented. This algorithm is suited for large data volumes (external sorting) and does not suffer from processing skew in presence of data skew. The core of the parallel sorting algorithm is a new adaptive partitioning method. The effect of data skew is remedied by taking samples representing the distribution of the input data. The parallel algorithm has been implemented on top of a shared disk multiprocessor architecture. The performance evaluation of the algorithm shows that it has linear speedup. Furthermore, the optimal degree of CPU parallelism is derived if I/O limitations are taken into account.