COMPLEXITY OF PARALLEL SORTING.

Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide*, Avi Wigderson

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Abstract

The authors consider PRAMs with arbitrary computational power for individual processors, infinitely large shared memory and priority write-conflict resolution. The main result is that sorting n integers with n processors requires OMEGA ( ROOT log n) steps in this strong model. It is also shown that computing any symmetric polynomial (e. g. , the sum or product) of n integers requires exactly log//2n steps, for any finite number of processors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnnual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings)
PublisherIEEE
Pages532-540
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)0818606444, 9780818606441
DOIs
StatePublished - 1985
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameAnnual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings)
ISSN (Print)0272-5428

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