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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Spiral Genetics Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Jeremy Bruestle, Seattle, WA (US);
Spiral Genetics, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The current document is directed to a method and system for data processing in cloud-computing environments and other distributed-computing environments. Implementations of a merge sort suitable for the sorting of data within cloud-computing environments and other distributed-computing environments are disclosed. These implementations takes advantage of the massive parallelism available in cloud-computing environments as well as take into consideration numerous constraints regarding data-storage and data-retrieval operations in a cloud-computing environment. The implementations provide a type of data-sorting method and system that iteratively carries out highly parallel merge-sort operations that can be effectively applied over a range of data-set sizes up to extremely large data sets.