Re: Fwd: [Beowulf] Free Fermi cards to interested developers and researchers
Joel Wiramu Pauling <[email protected]>
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Also I hear OpenBSD are looking at a patchset for doing something similar too. On 27 April 2010 15:55, Joel Wiramu Pauling <[email protected]> wrote: > Take a look at : > > http://www.ics.forth.gr/dcs/Activities/papers/gnort.raid08.pdf > > > > > On 27 April 2010 14:40, Michael Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27,April,2010 09:01 AM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: >> >>> I would love to get hold of some for network >>> inspection/filtering/classification offloading. >>> >> >> That would be interesting. >> >> As long as you can make everything fixed length and avoid branching (use >> predication) I think it could be done quite efficiently on the GPU. e.g. >> buffer up say 100K packets and run a kernel function over a whole batch, >> reducing the batch size and submission frequency based on network traffic. >> >> Deep packet inspection may be harder although not impossible (note this is >> pre-cuda but same concepts apply): >> >> http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch35.html >> >> Luckily Fermi can handle 32 bit integers (previous GT200 could only do >> 24bit integers which would make packet stuff harder - 32 bit integers are >> available in CUDA but are emulated and slow on previous gen nvidia GPUs). >> >> Anyone else on the list playing with CUDA? (i'd be keen to share >> experiences). >> >> > _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]