NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing operations. More recently, the well-known provider of computing security solutions, Kaspersky, announced that it began to incorporate the Tesla S1070 into its infrastructure in order to improve client protection.

The Tesla S1070 is based on multi-core graphics processors and it boosts the rate at which unknown filers are identified. This implies that Kaspersky was able to more easily and quickly respond to new threats. The actual performance delivered by the GPU in the speed of the similarity-defining algorithm was no less than 360 times better than that delivered by a system running a Core 2 Duo central processor clocked at 2.6 GHz.

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