The use of video chip for accelerating specialized calculations is already well known . AMD Company in this plan promise different application spheres . It is natural that without support from the side of software developers all these promises can remain promises, but the fields of application witch use video chip is enlarged.
As reports associate , corporation tarari was able to adapt the antivirus software kaspersky safeStream to the platform radeon HD 2900 XT. One video chip r600 execute scanning 21 times faster than two dual cores processor opteron. .
Since the urgency of antivirus programs will be hardly lowered in the forseeable future, their passage to the use of video card resources can bring benefit even to those users, that are not interested in games or graphic applications.