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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by jp <jp...@saucer.midcoast.com> on 2008/12/31 17:12:08 UTC

cuda

Would there be any performance to be gained by SpamAssassin if it were 
adapted to support cuda where possible? It seems spamd is both multicore 
friendly and pretty CPU intensive and if it could offload some of that 
work, it might be helpful. It appears a $200 nvidia chipped video card 
can do some serious computing. 

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Re: cuda

Posted by Ben Winslow <wi...@pa.net>.
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:12:08 -0500
jp <jp...@saucer.midcoast.com> wrote:

> Would there be any performance to be gained by SpamAssassin if it
> were adapted to support cuda where possible? It seems spamd is both
> multicore friendly and pretty CPU intensive and if it could offload
> some of that work, it might be helpful. It appears a $200 nvidia
> chipped video card can do some serious computing. 

Most of SA's CPU cycles are spent running regular expressions against
message headers and bodies — a task a GPU probably isn't terribly well
suited for.

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