{"id":13866,"date":"2009-12-16T03:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2009-12-16T03:38:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:38:57","slug":"kaspersky-lab-utilizes-nvidia-technologies-to-enhance-protection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/kaspersky-lab-utilizes-nvidia-technologies-to-enhance-protection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky Lab utilizes NVIDIA technologies to enhance protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<pre>We got a press release from Kaspersky Labs in Russia, a leading developer of anti-virus and<\/pre>\n<pre>secure content management solutions.  Before we post the press release, we\u2019d like to explain\r\nfirst as the news is quite important and their release is rather complicated.<\/pre>\n<pre>Kaspersky Labs is among the top four vendors of information security\r\nsoftware worldwide. Their software protects the computers and mobile\r\ndevices of over 250 million users worldwide and its technologies are integrated into\r\nthe products of many of the leading hardware and software vendors.<\/pre>\n<pre>Today they have announced that they are leveraging CUDA with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to\r\ndramatically improve the performance of their security software solutions by\r\nthree hundred and sixty (360!) times when compared to a 2.6 GHz Core2 Duo.\r\n\r\nKaspersky Lab uses the NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U GPU system to accelerate the screening\r\nof malicious programs using a unique file similarity detection technology.   When\r\nthe Kaspersky anti-virus software on a computer suspects that a file may be\r\nmalicious, even though it may not match any known virus signatures, the software\r\nuploads this file to the Kaspersky Lab data center.  The server software then\r\ncompares the suspected file against more than 50 million known good files and\r\nprograms. Using complex anti-virus and SPAM detection algorithms, Kaspersky's server\r\nsoftware identifies the risk level of the suspected file and informs the client\r\ncomputer on what kind of preventive action to take. You might want to check them out at\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.kaspersky.com', 'http:\/\/www.kaspersky.com']);\" >http:\/\/www.kaspersky.com<\/a>.  Their press release follows.<pre>\r\n. . .\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces\r\nthe incorporation of new parallel computing technologies by NVIDIA into its\r\ninfrastructure. In order to enhance client protection still further, the Company has\r\nstarted to use the highly efficient NVIDIA Tesla S1070 which is based on multi-core\r\ngraphics processors.\r\n\r\nNVIDIA Tesla GPUs are based on CUDA, NVIDIA's computing architecture that enables\r\nits GPUs to be programmed using industry standard programming languages and APIs.\r\nKaspersky Lab uses the Tesla S1070 1U GPU system to accelerate the intellectual\r\nservices that define the similarity of files. The similarity services enable the\r\nidentification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely\r\nresemble the unknown program received by the Company's antivirus lab.\r\nThe use of Tesla S1070 by the similarity-defining services has significantly boosted\r\nthe rate of identification of unknown files, thus making for a quicker response to\r\nnew threats and providing users with even faster and more complete protection.\r\nDuring internal testing, the Tesla S1070 demonstrated a 360-fold increase in the\r\nspeed of the similarity-defining algorithm when compared to the popular Intel Core 2\r\nDuo central processor running at a clock speed of 2.6 GHz.\r\n\r\nThe similarity algorithms have been especially optimized to operate with the latest\r\ncomputer systems. They have been considerably redeveloped to simultaneously perform\r\nhundreds of thousands of instructions, each requiring processing by large data\r\narrays. Kaspersky Lab specialists utilized the NVIDIA CUDA SDK development\r\nenvironment specifically for this purpose as it allows programs to be written for\r\nthe latest generations of NVIDIA graphics processors in standard programming\r\nlanguages.\r\n\r\n\"As our company aims to provide the best protection to our users, we actively employ\r\nadvanced technologies to accelerate computing.\" stated Nikolay Grebennikov, Chief\r\nTechnical Officer for Kaspersky Lab. \"We could not ignore the advantages of modern\r\ngraphics processing units (GPU).  In terms of efficiency they have long been far\r\nahead of central processing units (CPU) ors ?nd the tasks that they are capable of\r\nperforming have gone beyond the scope of basic graphics processing. The architecture\r\nof the GPUs  is optimized for the parallel processing of large data arrays and we\r\nhave already started to use this attribute to provide our clients with an even\r\nbetter level of protection from new malicious programs.\"\r\n\r\n\"The ever increasing sophistication of computer viruses continues to be a big\r\nproblem for consumers and corporations alike\", said Andy Keane, general manager,\r\nTesla business at NVIDIA.   \"Kaspersky Labs continues to stay ahead of the curve by\r\nemploying very novel change management and file similarity detection techniques\r\nthat, with the help of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, can quickly identify new threats and\r\nupdate the anti-virus software\".\r\n\r\nKaspersky Lab is planning to expand the application of highly-efficient parallel\r\ncomputing on graphics processors. They will be further integrated into the internal\r\ninfrastructure and possibly into the Company's own protection solutions too.<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Become a Fan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142', 'Facebook']);\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join our Distributed Computing teams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folding@Home - Team AlienBabelTech - 164304<\/li>\n<li>SETI@Home - Team AlienBabelTech - 138705<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do?teamID=3P39R3SRV1', 'World Community Grid - Team AlienBabelTech']);\" target=\"_blank\">World Community Grid - Team AlienBabelTech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a press release from Kaspersky Labs in Russia, a leading developer of anti-virus and secure content management solutions. Before we post the press release, we\u2019d like to explain first as the news&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533,6,7],"tags":[2885,248,2883,121,2884],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abt-news","category-news","category-technology","tag-anti-virus-scan","tag-cuda","tag-kaspersky-labs","tag-nvidia","tag-tesla-s1079"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}