[Oisf-devel] Earlier work on CUDA GPU Acceleration

[Robert Vineyard]

Not sure if you guys have seen this or not, but I just ran across these two
papers detailing an experimental implementation of CUDA GPU acceleration for
Snort using a port of the well-known Aho-Corasick algorithm. According to
the researchers, with this setup they were able to achieve substantial
pattern-matching performance improvements, in some cases up to 48x the
throughput possible using the normal CPU implementation (and this was on
older GeForce 9000-series hardware).

I'm passing these links along in case the work done by these folks might be
useful in developing Suricata's GPU acceleration capabilities.

Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors:
http://www.ics.forth.gr/dcs/Activities/papers/gnort.raid08.pdf

Regular Expression Matching on Graphics Hardware for Intrusion Detection:
http://www.ics.forth.gr/dcs/Activities/papers/gnort-regexp.raid09.pdf

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