On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:59 +0100, "Bret Lambert" <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Diana Eichert <deich...@wrench.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > > >> Henning, I told you, we should not talk about unfinsihed projects. > >> We planned to announce this in exactly 7 weeks. Anyway, to late, the cat > >> is out of the bag. > >> So Henning and Oga are working at offloading pf into the graphic card > >> cores by using the DRI interface. The shader will evaluate the ruleset > >> and packets in parallel and use the graphic memory for the state table. > >> Additionally if the speed of one card is not enough you can use SLI or > >> crossfire to use multiple cards in parallel. > >> > >> -- > >> :wq Claudio > > > > okay, now you have piqued my interest > > > > I will sit back and wait for mor info > > I, too, hope to get news of this shortly after March is over.
The rumor is that they are using CUDA on Nvidia graphics cards with advanced object oriented C++ and it is so fast that several developers are considering switching from C to C++ even for the kernel, after migrating to ZFS and replacing Perl in base with Java. Good times for OpenBSD indeed. Glad to see they are finally making some much needed improvements. OK... enough Friday humor. > > > > thanks > > > > diana
