The GPU-accelerated virus scans have largely stopped due to reduced threat activity and performance limitations.
The GPU-accelerated virus scans have largely stopped due to reduced threat activity and performance limitations.
In 2009, kaspersky claimed to be developing virus scans using GPU acceleration. The details of what actually occurred are unclear.
It's Kaspersky, but it seems to be failing. Likely it won't work at all.
It seems the solid state drive is currently the main constraint.
Virus detection mainly relies on decision trees to identify patterns or specific byte sequences. This represents the least efficient path for GPU processing since GPUs struggle with highly branching code. It seems the approach may have failed or been too slow. Modern antivirus software consumes significant CPU resources, making optimization worthwhile—but it's uncertain whether GPU acceleration would make a noticeable difference.