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 Getting started
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-This is the stable branch of the *Cholla* hydrodyamics code.
+This is the stable branch of the *Cholla* hydrodynamics code.
 
 *Cholla* is designed to be run using (AMD or NVIDIA) GPUs, and can be run in serial mode using one GPU
 or with MPI for multiple GPUs.