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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1999
Hiroshi Arakawa, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;
Shigeo Honma, Odawara, JP;
Hideo Ohata, Fujisawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sorting system includes a plurality of input nodes, each of which sorts sorting target data distributed and stored in input local disks. An internally sorted result is stored as a plurality of sorted strings in a shared disk connected between the input node and output node. Upon reception of a merge instruction from all input nodes, the output node reads the sorted string from the shared disk and merges it and outputs a whole sorted result of all input data to an output local disk. In a process of obtaining a whole sorted result of all input data through parallel processing by a computer system constituted of a plurality of computers (nodes), a time to sorting input data can be shortened.