Philipp Gerasimov, a representative software specialist at Intel recently said that the U.S. firm was busy securing its Larrabee architecture. The aim is to avoid or minimize the impact of viruses exploiting the GPGPU capabilities of modern graphics cards. Their ability to run a multi-threaded code much faster than a CPU could indeed attract some hackers. The field is becoming much more favorable with future generations of solutions such as Larrabee GPGPU, which will run x86 code, or the new NVIDIA architecture, which will be compatible with C + + and Fortran.

However, it must be remembered that GPGPU is still in its infancy, and that the interest of creating a program for a fraction of machines (and therefore of victims) is not really there. There will certainly in the coming months a "first virus GPGPU, but probably not of major infection. One can not help thinking that the purpose of this revelation is rather to establish doubt in the minds of potential buyers for a solution GPGPU present, boasting that Larrabee will not be available before a long time ... Note anyway that we know, NVIDIA has never reported on the subject.