[Oisf-users] OpenCL and Suricata

[Victor Julien]

On 03/29/2012 01:11 AM, Hariharan Thantry wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Wondering if there has been any thought on implementing the content
> pattern match using OpenCL (in addition to CUDA) as well? Would be
> happy to help there. Might be useful for Suricata, since OCL stack
> allows targeting larger number of vendors vs CUDA.

We actually started with OpenCL before looking at CUDA a few years ago,
but at the time the drivers were so poor we gave up. Right now we're
focusing on getting CUDA better first. Once we have that in better shape
(Anoop is working out a new design), supporting OpenCL should be
relatively straightforward as the fundamental designs are similar.

Cheers,
Victor

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