Nvidia’s General Manager of Cuda Sanford Russell told Fudzilla that Nvidia has been working on ways to speed up virus scanning on GPU.

Since this is highly parallel job, this would be a perfect task for Nvidia GPUs and since this market is huge, Nvidia definitely plans to put a lot of effort behind this project. Every Windows PC has a virus scanner, and in case it doesn’t, it wont last that long and this is definitely a great opportunity for the success of GPU computing and CUDA.

If Nvidia makes virus scanning drastically faster, they might have a chance of selling more GPUs than any time before. The opportunity is great and we hope that they might come up with something as currently CUDA applications for mainstream market are usually video encoding and image and video enhancement based.

This is a good start, but we simply need more. Its not that everyone needs oil and gas industry applications on their desktop, something that runs great on CUDA-based GPUs. Nvidia and Standord’s group certainly work around the clock to bring about a CUDA parallel GPU computing revolution.