# PENCIL: Towards a Platform-Neutral Compute Intermediate Language for DSLs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5586 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1302.5586/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 22 Feb 2013.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

We motivate the design and implementation of a platform-neutral compute intermediate language (PENCIL) for productive and performance-portable accelerator programming.