1. A method within a processing system to utilize a graphics processing unit (GPU) as a coprocessor for a central processing unit (CPU), the method comprising: instructing initialization of an operations database in a memory of the GPU; offloading operations from the CPU to the GPU, wherein the GPU is initialized with a route lookup database, wherein the route lookup database is used to resolve a longest prefix match operation; wherein the CPU transfers a plurality of network packets into the GPU memory; sending an instruction from the CPU to the GPU to begin processing data from the plurality of network packets on a plurality of processing nodes of the GPU using the operations database, wherein each node will extract either a source or a destination internet protocol address from a packet header for the longest prefix match operation; and receiving results by the CPU of the processing.