The famous anti-virus software service provider Kaspersky Lab has recently announced that the company has started to use the high-efficiency NVIDIA Tesla S1070 for enhanced client protection.

The Tesla S1070 1U GPU system features four GPUs, 960 scalar processors, and 16GB of ultra-fast memory, delivering maximum combined floating-point number-crunching power of 4.14 teraFLOPS in single-precision mode and 345 gigaFLOPS in double-precision mode. The use of Tesla S1070 1U GPU system is expected to accelerate the intellectual services that define the similarity of files. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the company’s antivirus lab.

During internal testing, the Tesla S1070 demonstrated a 360-fold increase in the speed of the similarity-defining algorithm when compared to the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU running at a clock speed of 2.6GHz.

Kaspersky Lab is planning to expand the application of highly-efficient parallel computing on graphics processors. They will be further integrated into the internal infrastructure and possibly into the company’s own protection solutions too.