AMD are far from the only company to make this bet. For one, the bet is backed by Apple, who are the creators of OpenCL. Nvidia have a GPU computing SDK with full support for OpenCL for all major platforms. Even Intel has just recently provided Linux drivers for OpenCL, and have supported windows for a while. ARM will have an implementation soon for their Mali GPU architecture.
I use OpenCL for nonlinear wave equations. There may only be a few OpenCL developers at the moment, but with articles like this, the community will only grow larger. Anybody else out there? What do you use it for?
No matter how high of an order you go for an approximation, there will always be a truncation error. That is the problem with using infinite series to represent physical models.
Literature critics seem to be as tight as art critics. These people seem to think they can define what is consider as "good" fiction, but they really have no idea what constitutes quality fiction, so they can only compare works to other works to quantify quality.
The great part is that these people really have no say in the matter. If it was not for artists like Jackson Polluck, who went against the established fine grain, then art would be still in the dark ages. Just as the same would be true for fiction.
My definition of contemporary epic science fiction is the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card.
My definition of contemporary epic fantasy is Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin.
The origin of both is the epic Odyssey and Iliad by Homer. Science fiction is just fantasy plus science. There is not a dichotomy between the genres as some people may think.
Some people may put Dostoevsky's (and other's) work in a different league as the work mention above, but that is incredible (as in not credible) in my opinion. I by no means say that their work is better than Dostoevsky, but their works are certainly derivatives of such fiction. If purists question the quality of these novels, then I question their ability to read. Subjectivity is a sharp tool that is better left in the shed.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.