high performance computing on graphics processing units: hgpu.org

Software that covertly monitors a user’s actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and removing it. Such software may be inadvertently installed by a user that is casually browsing the web, or may be purposely installed by an attacker, or even by the owner of a system to spy on other users of the system. This is particularly problematic in the case of utility computing, early manifestations of which are Internet.