Write a parallel program to find the kth smallest number of a set of numbers. Use a parallel version of quicksort, but apply it only to the set of numbers containing the kth smallest number. See...

Write a parallel program to find the kth smallest number of a set of numbers. Use a parallel version of quicksort, but apply it only to the set of numbers containing the kth smallest number. See Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest (1990) for further discussion on the problem.