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Vulkan is an explicit API, enabling direct control over how GPUs
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actually work. As such, Vulkan supports systems that have multiple
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GPUs, each running with a different driver, or ICD (Installable Client
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Driver). Vulkan also supports multiple global contexts (instances, in
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Vulkan terminology). The ICD loader is a library that is placed between
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a Vulkan application and any number of Vulkan drivers, in order to
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support multiple drivers and the instance-level functionality that
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works across these drivers. Additionally, the loader manages inserting
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Vulkan layer libraries, such as validation layers, between an
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application and the drivers.
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