[Oisf-users] OpenCL

[Chris Boley]

Thanks for your response Justin. We certainly appreciate hyperscan for
everything that it's done for the community already!
Kind regards,
CB

On Friday, November 11, 2016, Viiret, Justin <justin.viiret at intel.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
>
>
> We’re not actively investigating OpenCL based approaches for pattern
> matching. We have concerns about latency (for inline applications), total
> performance and the potential for “soft errors”. The amount of work it
> would require for us to support two patches to Suricata, one out of scope,
> is simply too much.
>
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> Currently we push all our pattern-matching effort into Hyperscan itself:
> that way performance improvements behind the scenes in Hyperscan
> (algorithmic improvements, support for new hardware features, etc) can be
> taken advantage of by Suricata without needing further changes to the
> Suricata code.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>     Justin
>
>
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> *Subject:* [Oisf-users] OpenCL
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> I saw in a previous post where CUDA has gone by the wayside in the area of
> continuing development support. I know the Intel professionals that helped
> incorporate hyperscan for Suricata are monitoring this forum.
>
> I pose this question:
>
> Given the great work that Intel has already done with hyperscan, why not
> work toward development incorporating even more horsepower via the OpenCL
> API? Given that many/most suricata appliances really are just CLI based
> server installations, the graphics processor mostly is not used. I think it
> makes sense for Intel to encourage Suricata development for intel based
> graphics processors/GPU's. Maybe this is already happening and I'm simply
> not aware. Is this even realistic? I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
>
> CB
>
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