Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

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bit-tech.net | Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus
Author: Gareth Halfacree
Published: 7th October 2009

Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

Nvidia's general manager of CUDA has announced the company's intention to produce a GPU-accelerated anti-virus.
Nvidia may have finally found the killer app that will bring the benefits of CUDA - its language for offloading highly parallel tasks on to the graphics processor - to the masses: CUDA-accelerated virus scanning.

As reported over on Fudzilla, the company's general manager of CUDA Sanford Russell has confirmed that his group is working on offloading the grunt work of scanning for viruses on to the GPU - potentially offering a massive speed-up over traditional CPU-based scanners.

Because the act of comparing a known string - some executable code - to a massive database of other known strings - virus code - is highly parallel, the potential performance benefit from a CUDA-based scanner is huge. As well as actually making the scan itself faster, the move would free up the system CPU for other tasks - potentially making the entire system feel more responsive.

With the global market for anti-virus - and anti-spyware and other malware - products being so large, it's would be a huge boon for Nvidia if it was able to convince a couple of the big names to offer CUDA-based offload support, especially if they could slap a nice big "The Way It's Meant To Be Scanned" logo on their product box.

If the company can get enough anti-virus providers offering CUDA-based scanners, Nvidia would finally have a unique selling point with which to attack the business market - traditionally dominated by Intel and its range of unexciting on-board graphics chips. While this would be unlikely to help sell its high-margin products, which remain aimed squarely at gamers and those making DIY supercomputers, it would give it a large sector to which it can sell its lower-end products.

So far Nvidia has yet to announce any partnerships with anti-virus manufacturers.

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Thanks to Rodney Reynolds 3dgameman.com

waht a nice way to use the GPU

waht if Intel aquires NVIDIA... ahay glory to intel nasad

[moz_k2]

kuyawa pud da.
naa na dayon benchmark para sa kaspersky, norton, avira and the likes
hehehe

[personalmgt]

Nearly all anti-viruses are useless in Vista and in Windows 7 due to its brick hard security architecture. So nice try Nvidia, I wont buy a nvidia card just to avail your anti-virus

[Kenshiro]

DIba limited raman ang virus scanning sa speed of the hardisk like RPM? When doing a virus scan even the processor usage is very low.

[moy2]

kbw naka technology mag buhat jud mga pakolo pra ma halin ilang product.kita rai g buang ani nila jud.ahehehe.lolx

[limes]

DIba limited raman ang virus scanning sa speed of the hardisk like RPM? When doing a virus scan even the processor usage is very low.

not only rpm but bandwidth speed transfer speed ba.

[COMCAM]

Gamit ba ni ug online gaming?

[poldopunk]

this is what norton antivirus exactly needs

[dexlimp]

whew pla sad kaha ni..