Yep.. you saw it right. Nvidia is working on creating an antivirus with the help of CUDA-Compute Unified Device Architecture.
Nvidia's general manager of CUDA has announced the company's intention to produce a GPU-accelerated anti-virus.
Get ready for this tagline- Nvidia , The way it's meant to be scannedBecause the act of comparing a known string - some executable code - to a massive database of other known strings - virus code - is highly parallel, the potential performance benefit from a CUDA-based scanner is huge. As well as actually making the scan itself faster, the move would free up the system CPU for other tasks - potentially making the entire system feel more responsive.
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Kelly
Source:Bit-tech
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