[Discussion] Features

[Victor Julien]

Jeremy wrote:
>> 4. Native Hardware acceleration support
>> There are a number of hardware acceleration technologies that could be
>> more effectively built into the engine from the start, versus the
>> back-asswards reverse engineering we have to do now to effectively
>> accelerate.
>>
>>     
> Really cool idea and would like to see this go forward, but again not
> a trivial mission.  With hardware acceleration you must factor in
> cost.  Why do we spend hours hacking the kernel, libpcap, and
> applications we use?  Easy cause most of us are under budget
> constraints and can not afford to implement many of these hardware
> accelerators...    I know we are going through the 10 Gb issues, and
> well buying a Bivio and Network General sniffer to do this is very
> painful for us and will break the bank.... that being said I welcome
> competitors in this area as I believe competition could cause some of
> these hardware acceleration technologies to fall in price.
>   
I've read some stuff about using (Nvidia) GPU's for hw acceleration.
There are some papers about it. I also read about using GPU's to speed
up ClamAV scanning. So maybe that would be useful to support as
'poormans' hw acceleration...

Regards,
Victor