We know that NVIDIA has plans to slowly-but-surely conquer the world with GPU acceleration, but it's hoping to speed up the process with a usage scenario that could benefit millions; GPU-accelerated virus scanning.
According to Fudzilla.com, NVIDIA's General Manager of CUDA Sanford Russel claims the graphics giant is working on speeding up the virus-scan process. Due to the highly parallel nature of a virus scan, NVIDIA reckons the process could be quickened dramatically by offloading work to a GPU.
Trouble is, NVIDIA will need to find itself a security solutions provider willing to create anti-virus software based on CUDA - a C programming environment that enables developers to code algorithms to be executed on an NVIDIA GPU.
It's an interesting idea, and presumably one that NVIDIA feels will give its own GPUs an advantage over competing solutions - but let's not get ahead of ourselves, as GPU-acceleration isn't likely to alleviate the biggest burden on lengthy virus scans; the bottleneck created by hard drives.