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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Alper Buyuktosunoglu, White Plains, NY (US);
Srivatsan Chellappa, Tempe, AZ (US);
Toshiaki Kirihata, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Karthik V. Swaminathan, State College, PA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A local sorting module includes a set of storage elements storing binary vectors configured in a one-dimensional (1D) or two-dimensional (2D) array structure and separated by respective comparators configured to conditionally compare and sort the binary vectors. The comparators may perform a sort using a compare-and-flip or a compare-and-swap operation. Local sorting modules may be coupled with a global sorting module for enabling a tournament sort algorithm to output values stored in storage elements one at a time until all data is outputted in a predetermined sorting order.