News: We have won the 2002 PennySort
Trophy! (
We have just received an Email
from Mr. Jim Gray, the
sponsor of PennySort
and organizer of Sort
Benchmark, who confirmed us that we have won the 2002 PennySort in the
Daytona category (for commercially supported fastest product), while another team from Department of Computer Sciences at University
of Wisconsin-Madison has won in the Indy category (for not commercially supported
fastest product)! Our record is listed as followings:
Daytona: THSort, 105 million records
In 1098 seconds on a $857 system
Peng
Liu, pengliu@ieee.org
Yao Shi, shiyao00@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Li Zhang,
, tension7@163.com
Xiaoge
Wang, wangxg@
tsinghua.edu.cn
Kuo Zhang, zhangkuo99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Tian Wang, wangtianthu@x263.net
Zunchong Tian, tianzunchong99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Hao Wang, wanghao_solo@sohu.com
High
Performance Institute,
Dept. of
Computer Science & Tech.,
http://hpclab.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~liupeng/
Mr. Jim Gray also said:
I will update the website at http://research.microsoft.com/barc/sortbenchmark/ within a few
days, but I wanted to send out this note of congratulations right
away. The Trophies are being re-engraved and the medals are being
minted.
Congratulations to both teams!!
The sort
rates of 90krps (records per second) or 9MBps represents a 2.5x improvement
over the year 2000 record (45M records in 889 seconds on a 1010$ computer.