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RT Virus

Overview

The rt_virus is designed to overwhelm the dedicated Ray Tracing intersection engines. It hammers the RT cores with billions of non-coherent ray-triangle tests to force continuous Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) traversal.

Execution Mechanics

The kernel generates a massively complex, randomized BVH in VRAM and floods the RT cores.

  • Spams non-coherent ray-triangle intersection tests to defeat ray sorting optimizations.
  • Forces the hardware to continuously traverse the BVH tree.
  • Maxes out the specialized RT silicon block completely independently of the primary ALUs.

Target Subsystems

  • Primary Target: Dedicated Ray Tracing (RT) Cores / Intersection Engines.
  • Secondary Target: L1/L2 Cache (due to continuous BVH traversal).

Failure Symptoms

Critical Failures

  • Rendering Artifacts: If used alongside graphical output, causes severe visual corruption and incorrect shadow/lighting calculations.
  • Supplementary Thermal Overload: When run in parallel with ALU viruses, it adds enough extra wattage from the RT cores to overwhelm the cooling loop.