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Original Articles

ON THE PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF A GENERALIZED BROADCAST

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Pages 65-82 | Received 18 Dec 1999, Accepted 13 Apr 2000, Published online: 16 Apr 2007
 

Abstract

We prove the correctness of optimized parallel implementations of a generalized broadcast, in which a value b is distributed to a sequence of processors, indexed from 0 upwards, such that processor i receives gib (i.e., some function g applied i times to b). Its straight-forward implementation is of linear time complexity in the number of processors. This type of broadcast occurs when combining scans with an ordinary broadcast. The optimized parallel implementations we describe is based on an odd-even tree and has logarithmic time complexity.

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