sorting data which 've one more field sorting with a database

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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hello,i have a project about cuda programming

and i need some idea ,if you help me i will be happy i
i) i have some data for example

id number_max number_min type
1 100 5 a
2 106 6 b

i want to sort this data on cuda c using radix sort with max_number and
ii)then i want to search some data among number max and number_min

question is how can i sort datas which have one more field i have already read thrust documents but i can not imagine how can i sort datas which have one more field and how can search data.,i need some code or ideas.

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Not sure whether this is applicable to your problem, but sorting of larger data structures on a single key can be reduced to sorting of (key,value) pairs by making each value a reference to the full data, for example a pointer to a structure or an index into an array.

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I have a radix sort library that supports a key and up to six attached value streams. The data you want to sort is the key of course… De-interleave everything else and pass those as values:
http://www.moderngpu.com/sort/mgpusort.html