Kapersky speeds up virus "hunting" with Tesla GPUs

[thilanliyan]

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18144

At least in my experience virus scans were bottlenecked by HDD speeds and not processing power.

EDIT: Apparently it's for hunting viruses and not for virus scans on your home computer. Thanks to those that pointed this out.

"Kaspersky Lab uses the Tesla S1070 1U GPU system to accelerate the intellectual services that define the similarity of files. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the Company's antivirus lab."

 

[Wreckage]

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18144

At least in my experience virus scans were bottlenecked by HDD speeds and not processing power.

This is to accelerate the screening of virus' in the wild. Thus improving their product. It's not for home use.

 

[yh125d]

Disk bandwidth may be less of a/not a problem with fast SSDs now, neat either way!

 

[Minas]

It's not actual virus scans:

"Kaspersky Lab uses the Tesla S1070 1U GPU system to accelerate the intellectual services that define the similarity of files. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the Company's antivirus lab."

Sounds like a good way to save money for that kind of business.

 

[Lonyo]

Seems like it's 4xC1060's which are >$1000 each, so $4k for the whole system.
And they're comparing it to a ~$70 processor in terms of performance.

Sounds reasonable!

It's still maybe >20x more cost effective if you take into account the platform cost of the Core 2, but the 360x number is a joke.

 

[Idontcare]

Seems like it's 4xC1060's which are >$1000 each, so $4k for the whole system.
And they're comparing it to a ~$70 processor in terms of performance.

Sounds reasonable!

It's still maybe >20x more cost effective if you take into account the platform cost of the Core 2, but the 360x number is a joke.

lol, you aren't kidding. I love this precious nugget of a quote in their press release:

During internal testing, the Tesla S1070 demonstrated a 360-fold increase in the speed of the similarity-defining algorithm when compared to the popular Intel Core 2 Duo central processor running at a clock speed of 2.6 GHz.

"Kaspersky Labs continues to stay ahead of the curve by employing very novel change management and file similarity detection techniques that, with the help of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, can quickly identify new threats and update the anti-virus software".

Kaspersky, staying ahead of the curve, one slow-as-molasses 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo chip at a time.

Sooooo...what is the point of Kaspersky making this press release to begin with? TWIMTBP?

 

[Minas]

I think you mean $4k/360=$11

i.e. core2duo is a ~6x more costly way to run their algorithm (less if you include code porting costs, more if you include power consumption costs)

 

[v8envy]

n/m, could happen.

 

[shangshang]

Kaspersky <-- bug galore
end of story