High Performance Multivariate Spatial Modeling for Geostatistical Data on Manycore Systems

The authors would like to thank NVIDIA Inc., Cray Inc., and Intel Corp., the Cray Center of Excellence and Intel Parallel Computing Center awarded to the Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) at KAUST. For computer time, this research used GPU-based systems as well as Shaheen supercomputer hosted at the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

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