Fast parallel GPU-sorting using a hybrid algorithm

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1381-1388

  Sintorn, Erik ^a   Assarsson, Ulf ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

GPU algorithms; Parallelism; Sorting

Indexed keywords

GPU-ALGORITHMS; HIGH SPEEDS; PARALLELISM; QUICK SORT; SORTING;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 51449089689     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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