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**Note:** Please, ensure that the Git executable can be found in the `PATH` variable of your operating system.
#### Install OpenCL
#### Install OpenCL (optional but recommended)
Vadere uses computer's video card to speed up some computations. Therefore, following OpenCL components must be installed:
Vadere uses computer's video card to speed up some computations. Therefore, following OpenCL components should be installed:
* the latest drivers for your OpenCL device(s)
*an OpenCL SDK
* the OpenCL Installable Client Driver loader also called ICD loader (Opencl.dll for Windows and libOpenCL.so for Linux)
* OpenCL Drivers for your device
Both should be offered by the vendor of your device. The device can be a CPU as well as a GPU (recommanded). For example if you have a NVIDIA GPU updating your drivers should be enough to install both components.
Vadere will search for the best device which is supported. On a desktop workstation this should be your video card (GPU).
Please, use following instructions to set up the OpenCL components for your operating system:
* Windows: For further information using OpenCL on Windows [click here](https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2015-03-16/how-to-install-opencl-on-windows/).
* Windows: For further information using OpenCL on Windows read the paragraph
