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MPI-I-93-118

Approximate and exact deterministic parallel selection

Chaudhuri, Shiva and Hagerup, Torben and Raman, Rajeev

May 1993, 10 pages.

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The selection problem of size $n$ is, given a set of $n$ elements drawn from an ordered universe and an integer $r$ with $1\le r\le n$, to identify the $r$th smallest element in the set. We study approximate and exact selection on deterministic concurrent-read concurrent-write parallel RAMs, where approximate selection with relative accuracy $\lambda>0$ asks for any element whose true rank differs from $r$ by at most $\lambda n$. Our main results are: (1) For all $t\ge(\log\log n)^4$, approximate selection problems of size $n$ can be solved in $O(t)$ time with optimal speedup with relative accuracy $2^{-{t/{(\log\log n)^4}}}$; no deterministic PRAM algorithm for approximate selection with a running time below $\Theta({{\log n}/{\log\log n}})$ was previously known. (2) Exact selection problems of size $n$ can be solved in $O({{\log n}/{\log\log n}})$ time with $O({{n\log\log n}/{\log n}})$ processors. This running time is the best possible (using only a polynomial number of processors), and the number of processors is optimal for the given running time (optimal speedup); the best previous algorithm achieves optimal speedup with a running time of $O({{\log n\log^*\! n}/{\log\log n}})$.

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@TECHREPORT{ChaudhuriHagerupRaman93,
  AUTHOR = {Chaudhuri, Shiva and Hagerup, Torben and Raman, Rajeev},
  TITLE = {Approximate and exact deterministic parallel selection},
  TYPE = {Research Report},
  INSTITUTION = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},
  ADDRESS = {Im Stadtwald, D-66123 Saarbr{\"u}cken, Germany},
  NUMBER = {MPI-I-93-118},
  MONTH = {May},
  YEAR = {1993},
  ISSN = {0946-011X},
}