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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
4319
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015061068
Overall Rank
678 | 95.36%
DOI
10.1145/1807167.1807207

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{satish_sigmod10,
        title = {{Fast Sort on CPUs and GPUs: A Case for Bandwidth Oblivious SIMD Sort}},
        author = {Satish, Nadathur and Kim, Changkyu and Chhugani, Jatin and Nguyen, Anthony D. and Lee, Victor W. and Kim, Daehyun and Dubey, Pradeep},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807207},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807207},
        year = {2010}
}

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7,242 Fast Multi-Column Sorting in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2016 SIGMOD 5.6641994e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
209 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024932174
305 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021872796
712 Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture 2008 VLDB 0.0001468812
925 Dictionary-based Order-preserving String Compression for Main Memory Column Stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00013182044
1,813 Main-Memory Index Structures with Fixed-Size Partial Keys 2001 SIGMOD 9.6941032e-05
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