Suricata has experimental CUDA support

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:49:55 +0000

One area of interest in the development of Suricata is hardware acceleration. Using the GPU is particularly interesting, as they are cheap and widely available. We’ve been looking at using the GPU to speed up pattern matching as a first step. Since OpenCL promises to be a cross platform multi vendor API for doing this we first looked at OpenCL. But we were never able to get something stable out of it, not on the NVIDIA drivers in Linux anyway. As that didn’t go anywhere we decided to use CUDA for the time being. CUDA obviously is NVIDIA only. Once we have CUDA fully running we may revisit OpenCL or look at other implementations like AMD/ATI’s stream API.

Suricata 0.8.1 released

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:14:41 +0000

Yesterday the OISF development team released Suricata 0.8.1. This release is much improved from our December 31st release. It is way more stable, performs better and has more features. Thanks to the now included HTP library we have much better HTTP handling. The stream engine has seen massive improvements. Initial experimental CUDA code has been added. Initial Win32 support has been added. We’ve added number of missing rule keywords. Many bugs were fixed.

Cuda on Inliniac

Suricata has experimental CUDA support

Suricata 0.8.1 released