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purely reply on the instructions for fglrx at [[ATIProprietary]] [2]. purely rely on the instructions for fglrx at [[ATIProprietary]] [2].

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ATI Stream is the OpenCL library for AMD/ATI graphics cards. This uses the GPU of your graphics card to perform highly parallel computations. The code is however functional also without the right hardware and also development is possible, say, on a many years old laptop with Intel graphics.

The AMD SDK is non-free. amd64 and i386 binaries are provided directly from upstream and can be installed tediously but easily. For previous releases of the fglrx driver of AMD, some good soul named nou has prepared .debs called amd-app to provide the Stream libraries and API [1]. Since version 11.11 of fglrx those packages do not seem to be required any more, so you can purely rely on the instructions for fglrx at ATIProprietary [2].

Some additional life-time-saving bits are found in the unofficial Wiki for AMD Linux drivers [3].