Parallel performance
Nikolay Grebennikov, Kaspersky's chief technical officer said the firm could no longer "ignore the advantages of modern graphics processing units (GPU)."
In terms of efficiency, he said, GPUs "have long been far ahead of central processing units (CPU) аnd the tasks that they are capable of performing have gone beyond the scope of basic graphics processing."
"The architecture of the GPUs is optimised for the parallel processing of large data arrays and we have already started to use this attribute to provide our clients with an even better level of protection from new malicious programmes," he said.
Meanwhile, Andy Keane, NVIDIA's general manager for Tesla complimented Kaspersky for staying "ahead of the curve by employing very novel change management and file similarity detection techniques."
Kaspersky says it is also planning to expand the application of parallel computing on graphics processors in the near future, noting they would be further integrated into the firm's internal infrastructure and possibly into the company's own protection offerings too.
