Bitonic mergesort is a parallel algorithm for sorting. It is also used as a construction method for building a sorting network. The algorithm was devised by Ken Batcher. The resulting sorting networks consist of O( n log^2( n )) comparators and have a delay of O( log^2( n )) , where n is the number of items to be sorted.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitonic_sorter)