NAG provides numerical libraries and compilers. Their presentation covered their product portfolio including numerical libraries for Fortran, C, MATLAB and .NET. They discussed recent updates, new features in the next release, and training available. They collaborate with academics and sponsor PhDs. The presentation provided an overview of NAG's products and services and encouraged questions.

1. NAG Presentation – Maths and Statistics
Working Group
David Humphris and David Sayers
5th December 2012
Experts in numerical algorithms
and HPC services

2. Agenda
 Product Portfolio and Recent News
 What’s coming in the next release?
 Current Agreement
 Training available to UK Academia
 Collaborations and Sponsoring
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3. Current Product Portfolio
 Numerical Libraries
NAG Fortran Library
 NAG C Library
 NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
 NAG Library for .NET
 NAG HPC Library
 Library for SMP & Multi-core
 NAG Fortran Compiler and GUI based Compiler (Fortran Builder)
 Consultancy Services & other available code
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4. NAG Libraries Ease of Integration
 C++ (various)  Excel
 C# / .NET  MATLAB
 Visual Basic  Maple
 Java  LabVIEW
 Borland Delphi  R and S-Plus
 F#  SAS
 Python  Simfit
 …  …
 …  and more
 and more
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5. NAG and Excel
Our libraries are easily accessible from Excel:
 Calling NAG DLLs using VBA
 NAG provide VB Declaration
Statements and Examples
 NAG provide add-ins:
 Stats & Survival Analysis
 And examples:
 Local volatility, Variance
Gamma, NCM, …
 Calling NAG Library for .NET
using VSTO
 functions with Reverse
Communication (useful for
Solver replication for
example)
 Create NAG XLLs
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6. Recent News
 Updates
 NAG C Library, Mark 23
 NAG Fortran Library Mark 23
 NAG Toolbox for MATLAB Mark 23
 NAG Library for SMP and Multi-Core Mark 23
 Fortran Builder Release 5.3, for use with both 32 and 64-bit Windows
 In the near future
 Release 2 of the Library for .NET
 NAG from JAVA
 Fortran Library Mark 24
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7. NAG Library : new in Mark 23
Mark 23 has new functions in many areas including...
* only available in NAG C Library & Toolbox (at MK23) 7

8. NAG Library : new in Mark 23
Mark 23 has new functions in many areas including...
* only available in NAG C Library & Toolbox (at MK23) 8

9. NAG Toolbox mk23: Ease of use improvements
 Function Handles
 In previous versions of the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB, users had to
provide some parameters as m-files. While this functionality is still
supported, users may also provide parameters as function handles.
 Better Exception handling
 Integer Utility introduced
 Making it easier to write portable code between 32 & 64 bit platforms
 Improved example programs and long names
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10. What’s Coming in the Next Releases
 FFT, Wavelets
 Quadrature, quadratic eigenvalue routines*
 Threadsafe ODE routines
 Radial basis functions
 Multi-start global optimisation
 Vectorised special functions
 Semi Definite Programming*
 More Matrix functions
 Brownian Bridge & Random Fields
 More Nearest Correlation Matrix*
 …
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11. Current Agreement
 New Simpler Agreement from 2010
 Based on per operating system
 Old agreement based and restricted on number of
implementations
 Site and Department Licence Options
 Unlimited usage for all students and staff on their desktops,
laptops, and home machines
 30 out of the 38 Universities signed up to the new style
agreement
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12. Training available to UK Academia
 Free Training Workshops available to all Universities signed up to Site and
Department Licences
 We are happy to travel to Universities to give seminars / hands-on
training sessions
 Example Training Courses
 Using NAG Toolbox for MATLAB Seminar and Hands-on Session
 Using the NAG Library for Excel Seminar and Hands-on Session
 An Introduction to Multicore Programming & The NAG Library for SMP
& Multicore Seminar
 CUDA / OpenCL /GPUs*
 .... and more
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13. Academic Collaborations & Sponsoring of PhD’s
 NAG works in Collaboration with various Academic
sites including...
 University of Manchester, Nick Higham
 UCL, William Shaw
 University of Aachen, Uwe Naumann
 University of Birmingham, Michael Kocvara
 …
 Sponsoring PhDs and MSc Projects
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14. NAG Technical Tips
David Sayers
5th December 2012
Experts in numerical algorithms
and HPC services

15. Agenda
 Any NAG-specific questions?
 Toolbox for MATLAB technical tip
 The NAG Fortran Compiler/ Fortran Builder
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16. Any NAG specific questions
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17. Toolbox for MATLAB technical tip
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18. The NAG Fortran Compiler/ FortranBuilder
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19. Ways to contact us:
www.nag.co.uk
Technical Support and Help
support@nag.co.uk
Account Manager
louise.mitchell@nag.co.uk
NAGNews:
http://www.nag.co.uk/NAGNews/Index.asp
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/NAGTalk
Blog:
http://blog.nag.com/
Experts in numerical algorithms LinkedIn:
and HPC services http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2707514/