CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor
Summary: CellSort exploits Cell’s heterogeneous SPE architecture with a three-tier SIMD/in-core/out-of-core bitonic pipeline. Asynchronous DMA and fine-grained SIMDization deliver up to 10× in-core and 4× large-memory sorting speedups over Xeon quicksort. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Bugra Gedik (IBM)
- 2. Rajesh R. Bordawekar (IBM)
- 3. Philip S. Yu (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gedik_vldb07,
title = {{CellSort: High Performance Sorting on the Cell Processor}},
author = {Gedik, Bugra and Bordawekar, Rajesh R. and Yu, Philip S.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '07},
pages = {1286--1297},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | Multi-Core, Main-Memory Joins: Sort vs. Hash Revisited | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00023143736 |
| 722 | Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00014488003 |
| 941 | Data Processing on FPGAs | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00012957405 |
| 1,386 | SPADE: The System S Declarative Stream Processing Engine | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00010843396 |
| 4,065 | PARADIS: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for In-place Radix Sort | 2015 | VLDB | 6.8227646e-05 |
| 4,225 | SIMD- and Cache-Friendly Algorithm for Sorting an Array of Structures | 2015 | VLDB | 6.7207703e-05 |
| 6,154 | FPGA: What's in it for a Database? | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.8687334e-05 |
| 9,201 | An Application-Specific Instruction Set for Accelerating Set-Oriented Database Primitives | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.2083769e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 287 | Implementing Database Operations Using SIMD Instructions | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00021970198 |
| 304 | GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00021604795 |
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