On Thursday 20 September 2007 09:52, Pawel Sasin wrote: > 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-prot > >>>ection.html > >> > >> Interesting! > >> > >> www.sensorynetworks.com do a hardware accelerator that works with > >> SpamAssassin: > >> http://sensorynetworks.com/pressreleases/PR0060_2006_05_02_NCASA-formatt > >>ed.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.
Have you heard of the OGP project? OGP = OpenGraphicsProject. It's an attempt to build a fully open graphics adapter and chipset. RSN they are going to ship the developer boards which is comprised of a PCI card with a fairly large FPGA on it... That would give someone the ability to create their own FPGA based regex acceleration... Or a project like SA to create the code & ship it with the product... I believe hardware is expected in a few short weeks. It has been demonstrated already running as a simple framebuffer. Hamish.
