An introduction to NAG Numerical components
Jeremy Walton
The Numerical Algorithms Group
Oxford, UK
Experts in numerical algorithms
and HPC services
http://www.nag.co.uk/
Overview
 An introduction to NAG
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NAG numerical libraries
 NAG and MATLAB
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NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
 NAG and HPC
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NAG Library for SMP & multicore
 Conclusions
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finding out more
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NAG’s products and users
 Products
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Mathematical, statistical, data analysis components
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Fortran compiler and Windows IDE
HPC software engineering services
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NAG Numerical libraries
HECToR support
Consultancy work for bespoke application development
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Academic researchers
Professional developers
Analysts / modelers
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Science, Engineering, Finance Users
 Life sciences
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GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, ...
 Engineering
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BAE Systems, E.ON, Airbus, …
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BNP Paribas, UBS, HSBC, …
 Business Intelligence
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Oracle, Thomson Reuters, …
 Major research organisations:
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National Physical Laboratory, CERN, MPI, …
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The NAG Numerical libraries
 Contain mathematical & statistical components
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~ 1700 of them
 Available on variety of different platforms
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stringently tested
 Comprehensive documentation
 Used as building blocks by package builders
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since 1971
gives reduced development time
allows you to concentrate on areas of expertise
interfaces to various environments
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NAG Library Contents
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Root Finding
Summation of Series
Quadrature
Ordinary Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations
Numerical Differentiation
Integral Equations
Mesh Generation
Interpolation
Curve and Surface Fitting
Optimization
Special Function Approximation
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Linear Algebra
Correlation & Regression Analysis
Multivariate Methods
Analysis of Variance
Random Number Generators
Univariate Estimation
Nonparametric Statistics
Smoothing in Statistics
Contingency Table Analysis
Survival Analysis
Time Series Analysis
Operations Research
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NAG Site Licence @ Warwick
 Site Licence for NAG Serial Libraries
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NAG C Library
NAG Fortran Library
NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
on Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bit
 Also access to
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NAG Library for .NET
NAG Data Mining Components
NAG Routines for GPU’s
 CSC also has access to NAG Library for SMP & Multicore
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Support and documentation
 Full access to NAG support support@nag.co.uk
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for academic or research purposes
Installation may be on any university, staff or student machine
please request support or licence keys using @warwick.ac.uk
 Our software
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includes online documentation - also www.nag.co.uk
is supplied with extensive example programs
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data and results
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How to get the software
 Download from
http://www.nag.co.uk/downloads/index.asp
 Get a licence key from
Patrick Ryan, IT Services (Patrick.Ryan@warwick.ac.uk)
who manages the NAG site licence
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The NAG Numerical libraries
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NAG Fortran Library
NAG C Library
NAG Library for .NET
NAG Library for SMP & multicore
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for symmetric multi-processor machines (OpenMP)
 NAG Parallel Library
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for distributed memory parallel machines (MPI)
 NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
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Other NAG library interfaces
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C
C++
C# / .NET
Fortran
Java
Python
Visual Basic
CUDA
OpenCL
F#
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Octave, SciLab, Freemat...
Maple
Mathematica
SciLab
PowerBuilder
LabVIEW
R and S-Plus
SAS
Simfit
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Overview
 An introduction to NAG
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NAG numerical libraries
 NAG and MATLAB
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NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
 NAG and HPC
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NAG Library for SMP & multicore
 Conclusions
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finding out more
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Current & future work (1)
 Continued algorithmic development
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116 new routines added at Mark 23
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122 were added at Mark 22
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Bound Optimization by Quadratic Approximation
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optimization of badly-behaved functions
Particle swarm global optimization
Quantile Linear Regression
Sampling with unequal weights
Nearest correlation matrix
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Current & future work (2)
 Mark 23 includes (contd):
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Copulas
extension of Mersenne Twister RNG
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skip ahead for parallel streams
Partial least squares / Ridge regression
Matrix functions
More wavelets
More interpolation
More curve / surface fitting
More linear algebra
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LAPACK 3.2 features
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Current & future work (3)
 New release of NAG C Library
 Now contains over 1450 routines
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over 340 new routines added
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including two new chapters
 New release is NAG C Library Mark 23
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functionality in line with NAG Fortran Library Mark 23
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previous release of NAG C Library was Mark 9
 Full details of functionality
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at http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/CL/newatmark23
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Current & future work (4)
 Also new release in 2012 of
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NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
NAG Library for SMP & multicore
NAG Fortran compiler
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Conclusions
 NAG offers software components for developers
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no wheel-reinvention, stone canoes, chocolate teapots
 Portable
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constantly being implemented on new architectures
made accessible from different software environments
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MATLAB, LabVIEW, Excel, R,...
 Reliable
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extensive experience at implementing numerical code
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Finding out more
 More on NAG and interfaces:
http://www.nag.co.uk/
 Technical support and help with NAG products:
support@nag.co.uk
 Today’s speaker:
jeremy.walton@nag.co.uk
 Warwick & Monash sales executive:
louise.mitchell@nag.co.uk
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Keeping in touch
The NAG Blog
http://blog.nag.com/
@NAGTalk
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2707514/
http://www.youtube.com/user/NumericalAlgorithms
http://www.flickr.com/photos/numericalalgorithmsgroup/
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