[Oisf-devel] [Discussion] Suricata 1.0.0 released

[Tomas L. Byrnes]

I've got a bunch of spare Hybrid SLI stuff hanging around, where the mobo integrated GPU is completely idle, since there's a real GPU in place, and Nvidia abandoned the idea of Hybrid SLI. Has anyone thought of how to use that completely idle chip?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-bounces at openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:discussion-
> bounces at openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Martin Holste
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:39 AM
> To: Will Metcalf
> Cc: Victor Julien; oisf-users at openinfosecfoundation.org; oisf-
> devel at openinfosecfoundation.org; OISF Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] [Oisf-devel] Suricata 1.0.0 released
> 
> Understood.  I just bought a new gaming rig at home, so now I have a
> spare box with a GeForce 9800 GTX with 128 stream processors just
> laying around.  I'll see if I can get it hooked up for testing and
> I'll let you know how it goes.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Will Metcalf
> <william.metcalf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Congrats!
> >
> > Thanks Martin!
> >
> >> Can you briefly describe the current state of the CUDA support?  Is
> it
> >> refined enough that performance is better when using CUDA?  I
> believe
> >> that in the early stages of development it was stated that non-CUDA
> >> was still faster than using CUDA.  Also, has anyone tested it using
> >> SLI?  This is really exciting stuff as the count of on-board stream
> >> processors continues to grow by leaps and bounds on these video
> cards
> >> every month!
> >
> > To be honest we haven't done much more performance testing, but the
> > packet batching code is now there i.e. sending multiple packets at
> > once to the graphics card.  If you have the cycles take it for a spin
> > and let us know ;-)..  We will be doing more testing/refining of this
> > code but as of now it is still experimental.  Just to rehash to build
> > with cuda support you simply...
> >
> > ./configure --enable-cuda
> >
> > edit the suricata.yaml file and set
> >
> > mpm-algo: b2g
> >
> > to
> >
> > mpm-algo: b2g_cuda
> >
> > and
> >
> > #max-pending-packets: 50
> >
> > to something like
> >
> > max-pending-packets: 7500
> >
> > This will cost you some ram btw ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Will
> >
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