Opencl (open computing language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include cpus, gpus and other processors.

this package provides a header file that allows a opencl implementation to build a installable client driver (icd). with a icd, an opencl implementation can be used by any opencl program without the need to link the program to the specific opencl implementation.

for building opencl applications, installs the ocl-icd-opencl-dev package instead.