Add challenge 70: Merge Sorted Arrays (Medium)#179
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Introduces a parallel merge challenge requiring solvers to merge two sorted float32 arrays into a single sorted output. Unlike a trivial sequential merge, an efficient GPU implementation must use the merge path (co-ranking) technique — each thread independently binary-searches to determine which slice of A and B it is responsible for, then merges locally without serial dependencies. Key GPU concepts exercised: independent work decomposition, binary search on GPU, merge path algorithm, memory access patterns. Includes 13 functional tests (edge cases, powers-of-2, non-powers, negative values, non-overlapping ranges, realistic sizes) and a performance test at M = N = 10,000,000. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@claude Rebase and bump this pr to be challenge_id 71 |
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Summary
float32arraysA(M elements) andB(N elements), produce a single sorted output arrayCof M+N elementsWhy this is interesting
This challenge exercises GPU concepts that are underrepresented in the current set:
It is not element-wise at all; every output element's value depends on a non-trivial combination of positions in both input arrays.
Test plan
black,isort,flake8 --bugbear,clang-formatall pass🤖 Generated with Claude Code