Massive threading: Using GPUs to increase the performance of digital forensics tools

Digital Investigation

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 73-81

  Marziale, Lodovico ^a   Richard III, Golden G ^a   Roussev, Vassil ^a  

^a The Research Institute for Children   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital forensics; Distributed digital forensics; File carving; GPU; Parallel programming; SIMD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

DIGITAL FORENSICS TOOLS; FILE CARVING; GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS (GPU);

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34447528956     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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