{"title":"The complexity of parallel sorting","authors":"F. Heide, A. Wigderson","doi":"10.1137/0216008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We consider PRAM's with arbitrary computational power for individual processors, infinitely large shared memory and \"priority\" writeconflict resolution. The main result is that sorting n integers with n processors requires Ω(√log n) steps in this strong model. We also show that computing any symmetric polynomial (e.g. the sum or product) of n integers requires exactly log2n steps, for any finite number of processors.","PeriodicalId":296739,"journal":{"name":"26th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (sfcs 1985)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1985-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"54","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"26th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (sfcs 1985)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1137/0216008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 54
Abstract
We consider PRAM's with arbitrary computational power for individual processors, infinitely large shared memory and "priority" writeconflict resolution. The main result is that sorting n integers with n processors requires Ω(√log n) steps in this strong model. We also show that computing any symmetric polynomial (e.g. the sum or product) of n integers requires exactly log2n steps, for any finite number of processors.