====== Sort (with Cilk and C++ (11) Threads) ======

==== Assignment ==== 
Write a program that 
  * generates a vector with N items filled with random values
  * sorts the vector (in parallel) 

Provide two versions of the program, one implemented using [[https://www.cilkplus.org/|Cilk]] and one implemented using standard [[http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/thread/thread/|C++11]] threads. 
You may consider using either merge or quick sort. Mergesort has a trivial divide phase and non trivial conquer phase. Quick sort is the other way round: non trivial divide and trivial conquer phases. 

==== Cilk ====
On local machines you'll mostly likely have available a GNU compiler. Cilk extensions are present since g++ version 4.9 (try **g++ --version** to check your version number).

If you can't manage to have a recent g++ version of the compiler on your machine, please use r720-phi.itc.unipi.it. On the remote machine you may use **icc** with //no specific flags// to compile the Cilk code. 

If you prefer using the local tools to edit: 
  * use local tools to edit
  * from a shell **rsync -avzur DirectoryWithCodeNoSlashAtEndOfTheName spm16xx@r720-phi.itc.unipi.it:**
  * then **ssh spm16xx@r720-phi.itc.unipi.it**
  * **cd DirectoryWithCodeNoSlashAtEndOfTheName**
  * **icc -std=c++11 cilksourcefilename.cpp -o xxx**