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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Inventors:
Fazle Sadi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Larry Pileggi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Franz Franchetti, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/16 (2006.01); G06F 7/49 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 7/499 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/16 (2013.01); G06F 7/49 (2013.01); G06F 7/49942 (2013.01); G06F 9/30079 (2013.01); G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 16/9027 (2019.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a novel multi-way merge network, referred to herein as a Hybrid Comparison Look Ahead Merge (HCLAM), which incurs significantly less resource consumption as scaled to handle larger problems. In addition, a parallelization scheme is disclosed, referred to herein as Parallelization by Radix Pre-sorter (PRaP), which enables an increase in streaming throughput of the merge network. Furthermore, high performance reduction scheme is disclosed to achieve full throughput.