News Super Computing 13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors

1. A network researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has found a potential new use for graphics processing units -- capturing data about network traffic in real time.
2. GPU-based network monitors could be uniquely qualified to keep pace with all the traffic flowing through networks running at 10Gbps (gigabits per second) or more, said Fermilab's Wenji Wu. 
3. What he is trying to tell that all the present technologies and tools used have their limitation and their traffic monitoring capabilities are extremely fault prone
4. CPUs don't have the memory bandwidth or the compute power to keep pace with the largest networks in real time. As a result, they can drop packets. 
5. Thus GPU are the future.
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