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 [PPoPP'18 paper](http://rsim.cs.illinois.edu/Pubs/17-PPOPP-HPVM.pdf)
 
 ## Dependencies
-You would need to download and install the following components for using AVX and NVIDIA GPUs to speed up your programs
+You would need to download and install the following components for using NVIDIA GPUs to speed up your programs
 
 * Intel OpenCL SDK for Linux from [software.intel.com/sdk/opencl](software.intel.com/sdk/opencl). Follow the installation instructions (no special requirements).
 * CUDA