For many years the company promoted the nVidia Tesla GPGPU platform as the next big event in computer engineering. This platform can be used to build supercomputers for compute-intensive parallel computing tasks, solving scientific problems, and it is rumored that she is also good as a basis for toasters.

However, Kaspersky Lab has decided to be a bit more sensible and use the power of Tesla to improve security. In the fall, the network has reported that CUDA can be used to run security software. Kaspersky included elements Tesla S1070 infrastructure in its software to enhance the protection of the client. According to the developers, Tesla managed to surpass Core 2 Duo processor with a frequency of 2.6GHz in certain problems in 360 times. No, it's not a misprint, and is not due to an increase of 360%, namely the acceleration of 360 times.

Laboratory processed similarity algorithms and optimize them for the simultaneous execution of hundreds of thousands of commands. Developers used the medium nVidia CUDA SDK, created specifically for this purpose, which allows you to write programs specifically for the latest generation of nVidia graphics processors on standard programming languages.

Note that this does not mean that ordinary users, computers which support the technology nVidia, because these technologies will benefit in the near future, but it may be a sign of things to come. As nVidia, and ATI is now pushing parallel computing, and offer some rudimentary capabilities GPGPU, mainly in the field of video encoding. Using chip cards to accelerate the work of antivirus software ─ is much more useful than the video encoding, and such use GPGPU can attract a much wider audience.