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Introducing the team: Mick Pont, NAG Principal Technical Consultant
Over the next few months, scattered in between our technical blog posts, we are going to publish interviews with NAG colleagues. Our first interview is with Mick Pont. Mick, what is your role at NAG?...
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Introducing the team: Craig Lucas, Senior Technical Consultant
Craig, describe your role at NAG?I am a Senior Technical Consultant based in NAG’s Manchester Office. Here I manage part of NAG’s High Performance Computing group. I come from a numerical linear...
View ArticleProfessor Mike Powell F.R.S
We are pained to pass on the sad news of the death on 19th April of Prof Mike Powell F.R.S, a brilliant numerical analyst specialising in numerical optimisation and approximation theory. Mike touched...
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Introducing the team: Gail Austin, Customer Support Coordinator, Team Leader
Gail, describe your role at NAG?I manage the Technical Support Service, the Sales Operations Team, NAG Oxford Reception and I am website editor for the marketing area of the website.Can you give...
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Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software 2015
by Mike Dewar, Chief Technical Officer, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)James Hardy WilkinsonNAG, along with Argonne National Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), awards the...
View ArticleHelping primary school children achieve the best in their SATs
My wife Caroline is a teacher in a primary school near where we live in Buckinghamshire. She teaches year 6, that is to say, ten to eleven year old children. Now, year 6 is a rather important year in...
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NAG Linear Regression on Apache Spark
This is a brief summary of a talk I gave recently at the Chicago Apache Spark Users Group Meetup. During the talk, I present many of the problems and successes when using the NAG Library distributed on...
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Introducing the team: Kathy Godwin, Quality Manager and Libraries Project...
Kathy, describe your role at NAG?I am now the Quality Manager and Libraries Project Manager. As Quality Manager, I try to keep everyone on their toes by checking 'everything' ... how it was done, why...
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Life Service Award 2015 – David Sayers
The NAG Life Service Recognition Award has been running for 5 years – it was created in NAG’s 40th year as a way of showing gratitude to people that have dedicated immense time and commitment to the...
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Travelling Rugby Fan Problem
The Rugby World Cup is well underway here in England. So far, I have been lucky enough to witness Japan beat South Africa at the Community Stadium in Brighton and next on my list is the nail biting...
View ArticleFinding the safe path through the HPC fog
The use of HPC (or supercomputing or big data computing or advanced technical computing or…) delivers real and significant benefits to those organizations that can exploit it effectively. However, the...
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Diversity at NAG: Vision for our future and where we are today
A short time ago my colleague, Andrew Jones, VP HPC Business, introduced me to John West, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Andrew found his blog posts...
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Changepoint Analysis using MongoDB and NAG4PY
Recently, I attended the Alan Tayler Day at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, organised by the Smith Institute. One of the speakers was Dr Rebecca Killick, of Lancaster University, whose talk...
View ArticleInspiring future talent - International Women's Day
On International Women’s Day we are delighted to publish an interview with NAG Placement Student, Heather Briggs, in which she speaks about her time at school, what led her to her degree choice, and...
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Multidimensional Improvements to the NAG Riemann Solvers
The NAG Library contains routines for solving the partial differential equations specific to compressible, ideal fluid flow. These equations are generally written in conservation law form where the...
View ArticlePortfolio Credit Risk: New Technical Report
In the latest NAG technical report we examine the main theoretical aspects in some models used in Portfolio credit risk. We introduce the well-known Vasicek model, the large homogeneous portfolios or...
View ArticleWho are the Customers of NAG's Impartial Expert HPC Consulting?
One of the questions I get asked most often while out and about in the HPC community at conferences, or visiting (prospective) customers is: "Who are your HPC consulting customers?". The simple answer...
View ArticleImproved Accessibility for NAG’s Mathematical and Statistical Routines for...
By John Muddle, NAG Technical Sales Support Engineer NAG and Continuum have partnered together to provide conda packages for the NAG Library for Python (nag4py), the Python bindings for the NAG C...
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Analysis of performance optimisation service requests: what kind of codes are...
by Sally Bridgwater, NAG HPC Application AnalystNAG is a partner in the Performance Optimisation and Productivity Centre of Excellence (POP). POP was created with the aim of boosting the productivity...
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Fortran Modernisation Workshop - An Attendee's Perspective
Jonathan Cooper, Research Lecturer, Department of Computer Science at The University of Oxford recently attended a Fortran Modernisation Workshop and has posted about the day: This two day intense...
View ArticleCalling NAG Routines from Julia
Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by the co-authors of the Julia programming language to help private businesses, government agencies and others develop and implement Julia-based solutions to their...
View ArticleThe New NAG Optimization Modelling Suite
Nowadays a vast majority of optimization solvers can handle very complex problems involving many variables and various types of the constraints with a different structure. Designing an interface for...
View ArticleNew Mathematical Optimization Collaboration with the University of Oxford
NAG has recently started an academic collaboration with the Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling (InFoMM) at the University of Oxford. Lindon Roberts is the main...
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The women that helped create NAG - International Women's Day 2017
On International Women’s Day 2017 we are proud to highlight three pivotal women that played important roles in forming the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). NAG has been producing numerical software...
View ArticleTo users of NAG Library Documentation - MathJax
The NAG Library documentation makes use of the MathML format for displaying mathematics within web pages. This is supported natively in the Firefox browser, but for users of other browsers we use the...
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