@InProceedings{nodine:deterministic,
  author = {M. H. Nodine and J. S. Vitter},
  title = {Deterministic Distribution Sort in Shared and Distributed Memory
  Multiprocessors},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and
  Architectures},
  year = {1993},
  pages = {120--129},
  address = {Velen, Germany},
  keywords = {parallel I/O algorithm, sorting, shared memory, pario-bib},
  abstract = {We present an elegant deterministic load balancing strategy for
  distribution sort that is applicable to a wide variety of parallel disks and
  parallel memory hierarchies with both single and parallel processors. The
  simplest application of the strategy is an optimal deterministic algorithm
  for external sorting with multiple disks and parallel processors. In each
  input/output (I/O) operation, each of the $D \geq 1$ disks can simultaneously
  transfer a block of $B$ contiguous records. Our two measures of performance
  are the number of I/Os and the amount of work done by the CPU(s); our
  algorithm is simultaneously optimal for both measures. We also show how to
  sort deterministically in parallel memory hierarchies. When the processors
  are interconnected by any sort of a PRAM, our algorithms are optimal for all
  parallel memory hierarchies; when the interconnection network is a hypercube,
  our algorithms are either optimal or best-known.},
  comment = {Short version of nodine:sort2 and nodine:sortdisk.}
}

