ATI Stream SDK V2.0 | OpenCL Full CPU & GPU Support | Introduction

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Brace yourselves. The Kernel is not compiled until just prior to execution (hardware-specific native Kernels seem unlikely in practice since the whole idea is to be hardware independent but the HPC guys might do this) when it is directed to be built/compiled by the application. The compilation step is hardware dependent; if the application is executing on a platform with an x86 processor and an ATI GPU the Kernel will have either path available for compilation, potentially even determined at runtime! So if the GPU is busy, your applications could complile the Kernel for the CPU, execute it, and at a later time, compile it for the GPU, and execute it! You could hold an iner-application race, compiling separate instances for both, one for x86 and one for the GPU, and running them concurrently! I describe some of this in the interview: http://links.amd.com/openinterview

Think if they wrote AI "artificial intelligence" in parallel. Where you could have a program answer its own questions. If you think about life in general it is all reasoning. If you were able to compute enough possible outcomes to a given problem (or moment) and choose the best answer. You would have a form of intelligence. The main function of life is self-preservetion, apply this together and you got yourself a terminator. I dont think its to far off if your using the compute power these days. If you think about it, it isn't to far fetched. You got to think, modern inventions were all just imagination at one time or another.