FastSort: A Distributed Single-Input Single-Output External Sort.

Betty Salzberg, Alex Tsukerman, Jim Gray, Michael Stewart, Susan Uren, Bonnie Vaughan: FastSort: A Distributed Single-Input Single-Output External Sort. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 94-101

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/SalzbergTGSUV90,
  author    = {Betty Salzberg and
               Alex Tsukerman and
               Jim Gray and
               Michael Stewart and
               Susan Uren and
               Bonnie Vaughan},
  editor    = {Hector Garcia-Molina and
               H. V. Jagadish},
  title     = {FastSort: A Distributed Single-Input Single-Output External Sort},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
               Management of Data, Atlantic City, NJ, May 23-25, 1990},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1990},
  pages     = {94-101},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/93597.98719, db/conf/sigmod/SalzbergTGSUV90.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/90},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

External single-input single-output sorts can use multiple processors each with a large tournament replacement-selection in memory, and each with private disks to sort an input stream in linear elapsed time. Of course, increased numbers of processors, memories, and disks are required as the input file size grows. This paper analyzes the algorithm and reports the performance of an implementation.

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