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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael R. Scott, Ocean View, HI (US);
Ronald David Boenig, II, Denver, CO (US);
David C. Reed, Tucson, AZ (US);
Samuel Ryan Smith, Vail, AZ (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHIINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for selecting a plurality of processing systems to sort a data set. A determination is made of processing systems to perform a sort of records in a data set. The data set is divided into data subsets, each data subset comprising a portion of the records of the data set. Each of the determined processing systems of is notified of a data subset to sort. In response to receiving notification from the determined processing systems that the records in the data subsets have been sorted, the sorted data subsets are merged into a sorted data set comprising the records of the data set sorted.