Incoming UW CSE grad student, Seungyeop Han, and his co-authors recently received the best poster award for their poster “Accelerating SSL with GPUs,” which proposes using the computing capabilies of the Graphical Processing Units on computer video cards to cheapen the considerable computational cost of wrapping HTTP communications with SSL encryption. SIGCOMM 2010 was held in New Delhi, India, August 30-September 3, 2010.
More information on the conference may be viewed here.