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Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort

Summary: Bandwidth-oblivious SIMD sort for CPU/GPU; competitive analysis across SIMD, radix, and merge approaches. Proposes CPU radix sort and GPU merge sort ~2× faster than prior work; radix dominates on current HW, GPU advantage narrows; merge sort favors large-key cardinalities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4258
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015227954
Overall Rank
932 | 93.53%
DOI
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4,609 Deployment of Query Plans on Multicores 2015 VLDB 6.0458679e-05
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5,251 Triton Join: Efficiently Scaling to a Large Join State on GPUs with Fast Interconnects 2022 SIGMOD 5.6003972e-05
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