[Oisf-devel] GPU Support

[Charles Wyble]

Hello,

My name is Charles Wyble and I'm a systems/network engineer. I've long 
been interested in security as a practical matter. Worked for numerous 
e-commerce and other very sensitive environments.

I'm currently in the process of setting up a very comprehensive lab 
environment and plan to use Suricata IDS for the IDS/IPS. Thus far I've 
just been researching it, and it looks very promising. Plan to combine 
it with opsview (already in use) , to get a comprehensive overview of 
the network and show that open source net security/monitoring tools are 
awesome.

Anyway, I noticed in the release announcement discussion of GPU 
offloading. This is a huge passion of mine, and I would like to help.

I have a CUDA Nvidia GPU, (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia 
Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
a ps3 running Ubuntu 9.04 (cell sdk) and an ATI stream card (brook)

I'm fairly new to CUDA/OpenCL development, but would be happy to 
alpha/beta test code. Or if developers need access to hardware for 
testing purposes I would be happy to set that up.