hello,
my co-worker has come accross some interesting articles (links
below) about hardware accelerated regexp matching (using specialised
hardware or even popular PCI Express GPU cards). Has anyone thought
about using this in SA? The benchmarks done using Kaspersky AV are
very promising... SA can use compiled regexps, mayby one could use
the very same API to run regexp tests via the GPU?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42299
http://www.tarari.com/news_pr_details.asp?ID=53
http://www.tarari.com/regexEAP/index.html
http://www.kaspersky.nl/news/kaspersky-and-tarari-enhance-hardware-protection.html
Interesting!
www.sensorynetworks.com do a hardware accelerator that works with
SpamAssassin:
http://sensorynetworks.com/pressreleases/PR0060_2006_05_02_NCASA-formatted.pdf
but this company, and their GPGPU approach is new to me.
I remember coming across this about 2 years ago now (I think they've
released two new versions of the processor since)... the dev kit was
something like $5k but I never got around to contacting them to find
out the important price... cost per PCI(-X) card for end-user use.
SensoryNetworks said: Support for this product is no longer available.
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