diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 29b5e7a16..b68866423 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure
-
+# Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure With python OPENCL/Multi-Core options
 ![Build](https://github.com/facebook/prophet/workflows/Build/badge.svg)
 
 [![PyPI Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/prophet.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/prophet)
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 20b7c69ad..772fb776c 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 import os
+import sys
 import platform
 from pathlib import Path
 from shutil import copy, copytree, rmtree
 from typing import List
-
+import cmdstanpy.utils as utils
+print(utils.cmdstan_path())
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup, Extension
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
 from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
@@ -18,14 +20,25 @@
 
 MODEL_DIR = "stan"
 MODEL_TARGET_DIR = os.path.join("prophet", "stan_model")
-
+MODEL_GPU = False
+MODEL_MULTI_CORES = False
 CMDSTAN_VERSION = "2.26.1"
 BINARIES_DIR = "bin"
 BINARIES = ["diagnose", "print", "stanc", "stansummary"]
 TBB_PARENT = "stan/lib/stan_math/lib"
 TBB_DIRS = ["tbb", "tbb_2019_U8"]
-
-
+if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
+    try:
+        OPEN_CL = "-L\"" + "%CUDA_PATH%/lib/Win32/OpenCL.lib\""
+    except KeyError:
+        raise OSError("Environment variable is not set")
+elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
+    try:
+        OPEN_CL = "-L/usr/local/cuda-11.8/lib64/ -lOpenCL"
+    except KeyError:
+        raise OSError("Environment variable is not set")
+else:
+    raise OSError("Unsupported platform: {}".format(sys.platform))
 def prune_cmdstan(cmdstan_dir: str) -> None:
     """
     Keep only the cmdstan executables and tbb files (minimum required to run a cmdstanpy commands on a pre-compiled model).
@@ -105,12 +118,40 @@ def build_cmdstan_model(target_dir):
     target_dir: Directory to copy the compiled model executable and core cmdstan files to.
     """
     import cmdstanpy
-
+    if MODEL_GPU and MODEL_MULTI_CORES:
+        cpp_options = {
+            'STAN_THREADS': True,
+            'STAN_CPP_OPTIMS': True,
+            'STAN_OPENCL': True,
+            'OPENCL_DEVICE_ID': 0,
+            'OPENCL_PLATFORM_ID': 0,
+            "PRECOMPILED_HEADERS":False,
+            'LDFLAGS': OPEN_CL+' -lOpenCL'
+
+        }
+    elif MODEL_MULTI_CORES:
+                cpp_options = {
+            'STAN_THREADS': True,
+            'STAN_CPP_OPTIMS': True,
+
+        }
+    elif MODEL_GPU:
+        cpp_options = {
+            'STAN_CPP_OPTIMS': True,
+            'STAN_OPENCL': True,
+            'OPENCL_DEVICE_ID': 0,
+            'OPENCL_PLATFORM_ID': 0,
+            "PRECOMPILED_HEADERS":False,
+            'LDFLAGS': OPEN_CL+' -lOpenCL'
+        }
     cmdstan_dir = (Path(target_dir) / f"cmdstan-{CMDSTAN_VERSION}").resolve()
     install_cmdstan_deps(cmdstan_dir)
     model_name = "prophet.stan"
     target_name = "prophet_model.bin"
-    sm = cmdstanpy.CmdStanModel(stan_file=os.path.join(MODEL_DIR, model_name))
+    if MODEL_GPU or MODEL_MULTI_CORES:
+        sm = cmdstanpy.CmdStanModel(stan_file=os.path.join(MODEL_DIR, model_name), cpp_options=cpp_options)
+    else:
+        sm = cmdstanpy.CmdStanModel(stan_file=os.path.join(MODEL_DIR, model_name))
     copy(sm.exe_file, os.path.join(target_dir, target_name))
 
     # Clean up