University deploys NAG numeric library
16 November 2010
Tsinghua University has signed a co-operative agreement for a campus-wide license with NAG.
Internationally acclaimed Tsinghua University, which can boast an alumni including the current President and Vice President of China, has signed an agreement for a campus-wide license with Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
The not-for-profit organisation that collaborates with leading researchers and practitioners in academia and industry, offers what are arguably the most rigorously tested and documented numeric algorithms in the world. With origins in several UK universities, the Numerical Algorithms Group has its headquarters in Oxford and collaborates with world-leading researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. NAG serves its customers from offices in Oxford, Manchester, Chicago, Tokyo and Taipei, through field sales staff in France and Germany, as well as via a global network of distributors.
Tsinghua University’s licensing agreement includes the NAG Library, which can be used from many environments including C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Excel, and parallel or multicore platforms, and the NAG Fortran compiler.
“We are very pleased to introduce NAG products into Tsinghua and believe that this co-operation will effectively improve Tsinghua’s research environment,” said Edward Chou, NAG’s General Manager for Greater China.
Chou adds: “Tsinghua University's top tier researchers and students should be equipped with first-class R&D tools. NAG's mathematical and statistical algorithms, in terms of the scope of functionalities, accuracy and performance, are the most superior numeric computing software one can find worldwide. In past years, because of budget shortfalls, scientists in China had to develop the required algorithms by themselves; requiring many man-hours for development and making re-porting of routines to new platforms difficult. But with the rapid economic growth and increased demand in China, it is no longer necessary or deemed economical for researchers at Tsinghua to develop these mathematical and statistical algorithms by themselves.”
Trials of the NAG Library are available from http://www.nag.com/downloads/trial_request.asp
Tsinghua University was established in 1911. At present, the university has 14 schools and 56 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics, management, education and art. The University has over 25,900 students, including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students.
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