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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
h7228fa3674e94a70
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00014972958
Overall Rank
662 | 95.57%
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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1,269 An Experimental Comparison of Thirteen Relational Equi-Joins in Main Memory 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011236561
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3,403 CloudRAMSort: Fast and Efficient Large-Scale Distributed RAM Sort on Shared-Nothing Cluster 2012 SIGMOD 7.3213995e-05
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4,084 PARADIS: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for In-place Radix Sort 2015 VLDB 6.7991616e-05
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4,958 FPGA-based Data Partitioning 2017 SIGMOD 6.3254925e-05
5,202 On the Surprising Difficulty of Simple Things: the Case of Radix Partitioning 2015 VLDB 6.2175649e-05
5,373 Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2023 SIGMOD 6.1405913e-05
5,412 Towards a Hybrid Design for Fast Query Processing in DB2 with BLU Acceleration Using Graphical Processing Units: A Technology Demonstration 2016 SIGMOD 6.1294162e-05
5,787 Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities 2021 VLDB 5.9768075e-05
6,228 Data Partitioning for In-Memory Systems: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities 2019 CIDR 5.8261473e-05
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7,492 Fast Multi-Column Sorting in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2016 SIGMOD 5.4981253e-05
8,654 Inferray: fast in-memory RDF inference 2016 VLDB 5.2795152e-05
8,701 Adaptive Code Generation for Data-Intensive Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.2714222e-05
8,781 Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs 2024 SIGMOD 5.2647498e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
212 Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs 2009 VLDB 0.00024786576
304 GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Co-processor Sorting for Large Database Management 2006 SIGMOD 0.00021569633
722 Efficient Implementation of Sorting on Multi-Core SIMD CPU Architecture 2008 VLDB 0.00014470465
912 Dictionary-based Order-preserving String Compression for Main Memory Column Stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00013092547
1,849 Main-Memory Index Structures with Fixed-Size Partial Keys 2001 SIGMOD 9.5008844e-05
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