I have so much respect and a little envy for the work you're doing at the moment. You're working on one of the most far-reaching and undeniably positive software projects I've heard of in years. Best of luck!
It's possible that at some point (depending on if it gets open sourced) I'll be grabbing some of your work and trying to wrangle it to work on my desktop. Is this an area where I seriously risk bricking my CPU, or are there safeguards that cause these kinds of instructions to either work or safely fail?