i hope this works apply the algorithm to find k max numbers in each machine. then let each mac tell its gt a max element .hence each machine is polled to get the max elemnt if greater than current max then it s max otherwise no.repeat process for k times
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, ankur aggarwal <[email protected]>wrote: > If you have a large number of data which are stored on 100 distributed > computers, unsorted, how can you compute the kth number of all the data? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
