Chasing computer virus is a demanding task that relies much on the parallel work in our computers. Although an ordinary CPU very well capable of a normal virus scan, it is not always so fast and furious at antivirus company Kaspersky Lab is now looking past the processor market in the hunt for viruses. It has eyes on Nvidia's Tesla GPU-based system which has proved very effective in the antivirus industry.

Kasperspy Lab has announced that it has now begun to use the Nvidia Tesla S1070 system in a 1U format, houses 960 CUDA processors and 16GB memory, for a maximum computing power on 4:14 teraflops in single-precision and 345 gigaFLOPS in double-precision. All through four Tesla graphics cards based on GT200b nucleus.

With this computing power available could Kaspersky in their own tests to see a performance increase of 360 times against a standard Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.6 GHz.

By using Tesla S1070 looks Kaspersky Lab ability to quickly and efficiently identify malicious files and thus find protection against these before they can create problems for ordinary consumers. We are now waiting only for the GPGPU technology also will find their way into our own computers to protect against malicious code.

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