The work was done as part of a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at Washington University in St. Louis. I implemented several sorting algorithms in parallel using CUDA to evaluate the improvement in performance over sequential implementations of these algorithms (SNH11).
Related publications
[SNH11] A Sinha. “Sorting on CUDA”, Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity, Providence, RI (April 13, 2011)