Quicksort is an algorithm invented by C.A.R. (“Tony”) Hoare in 1960 while at Moscow State University. Tony Hoare was a graduate student studying Probability Theory under Professor A.N. Kolmogorov.

GPU-Quicksort in OpenCL 1.2. The GPU-Quicksort in OpenCL 1.2 is a straightforward implementation following the algorithms described in the Cederman/Tsigas paper.