External Memory Sorting
External Memory Sorting is an external memory algorithm that organizes data stored predominantly in secondary storage by minimizing input/output operations through efficient block-wise data access and arrangement, distinguishing itself from internal memory sorting methods by explicitly accounting for the hierarchical structure of memory and the high cost of disk transfers.
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Dirk Koch, Jim Tørresen · 2011 · 168 citations
Jeffrey Scott Vitter · 1998 · 129 citations · Full text
Sorting and searching on the word RAM
Torben Hagerup · Lecture notes in computer science · 1998 · 107 citations
Christian Böhm, Bernhard Braunmüller, Florian Krebs et al. · 2001 · 104 citations
On sorting strings in external memory (extended abstract)
Lars Arge, Paolo Ferragina, Roberto Grossi et al. · 1997 · 84 citations
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Duke University
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University of California, Irvine
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Carleton University
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Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
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Northeastern University
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Microsoft (United States)
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Cornell University
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