Department of

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

State University of New York at Stony Brook


PEST is a parallel code written in C++ with MPI. It generates realizations of scalar random fields of given covariance/semivariogram structure and conditions them to a given point set of measured data. In addition to generating a realization, it plots an image of the realization in Sun Rasterfile format. Additionally computes the realization histogram and its covariance/semivariogram function. Specifically, PEST can generate realizations of the following isotropic model functions in 2 or 3 spatial dimensions.

Model Covariance C(r) /Semivariogram g(r)

The source code and a technical report are available.


Support Acknowledgements


This work has been supported by

  • Oak Ridge National Lab., Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, subcontract 38XSK964
  • U.S. Department of Energy, High Performance Computing and Communications Program, grant DE-FG02-95ER25265
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Applied Mathematical Sciences Program, grant DE-FG0290-ER25084

  • Please email questions and suggestions to Brent Lindquist or Wonho Oh