psort
Psort is a name used by several software projects, most commonly for a parallel sorting tool designed for Unix-like systems. The intent behind the project is to speed up the sorting of large text and data files by leveraging multiple CPU cores while maintaining compatibility with standard sort semantics used in Unix environments.
In typical use, Psort reads input from files or standard input and outputs sorted data to standard
The term Psort can refer to different software efforts in various contexts, though PSORT is the established
See also: sort (Unix command), PSORT, parallel sorting, external sorting.