Samsung’s Software Centre in Korea and Samsung Research America (SRA) in the Silicon Valley have developed a new sorting engine called DeepSort. Today, Samsung Electronics announced that its latest sorting engine, DeepSort, has topped Sort Benchmark’s Minute Sort test with record-breaking results. Minute Sort is an industry benchmark which tests out the amount of data an algorithm can sort in 60 seconds; Samsung’s DeepSort analysed and reorganised 3.7 terabytes of data in a minute, considering the previous record of 1.5 terabytes, this is a monumental achievement for the Korean giant.

DeepSort was tested in a networked environment composed of 384 nodes. Each node was packed with two 2.1GHz Intel Xeon hexa-core processors, 64GB RAM, eight 3TB 7200RPM hard drives with ext4 file system, CentOS 6.4, and one 10Gbps Ethernet port. By now, your jaw has probably been dropped to the floor by looking at those specifications, and you want one of those nodes in your house for all your complex processing needs. Well, it turns out, these are actually moderate specifications when compared to other main competitors in the competition. Samsung chose to take this route, so that Sort Benchmark could more accurately evaluate its software’s pure performance.

With DeepSort, Samsung is targeting high efficiency at a large scale. To achieve this goal, Samsung has enabled simultaneous processing and multithreading at all stages and components of the program; a fluent data flow that shares the limited memory space and minimises data move-moment. This allows the Korean giant to evenly distribute the load among all servers; minimising buffering time in the servers’ hard drives by maximising memory cache usage.

“Billions of people across the world continue to generate an incredible amount of data,” said Juhan Lee, Vice President at the Samsung Electronics Software Center in Seoul. “As a result, data processing capabilities have become fundamental in developing next-generation services for consumers, such as those related to the Internet of Things and digital health. DeepSort and other innovative solutions currently in the pipeline will form the foundation upon which a new generation of such services may reach their full potential.”

Samsung is expected to implement DeepSort into a number of its mobile applications and services that incorporate search functions. This, in return, should allow applications to fetch records faster than before, hence, reducing the wait time between search queries; ultimately improving the user experience.