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 The HPVM Compiler Infrastructure
 ================================
 
-HPVM is a compiler for heterogeneous parallel system.
+HPVM is a compiler for heterogeneous parallel systems.
 For more about what HPVM is, see `our website <https://publish.illinois.edu/hpvm-project/>`_
 and publications:
 `HPVM (PPoPP'18) <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3200691.3178493>`_,
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ compilers,programming languages, approximate computing, software optimization,
 static and dynamic program analysis, and systems for machine learning.
 
 `HPVM <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3200691.3178493>`_
-includes a retargetable compiler infrastructure that targets CPUs, CPUs, and accelerators
+is a retargetable compiler infrastructure that targets CPUs, CPUs, and accelerators
 (this release does not include accelerator support)
 and uses a portable compiler IR that explicitly represents data flow at the IR level,
 and supports task, data, and pipelined parallelism.