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NAG Library for SMP & multicore - Supporting Documentation

This release of the NAG Library for SMP & multicore has identical functionality and subroutine interfaces as the latest release of the NAG Fortran Library. The NAG Library for SMP & multicore now uses the same documentation and version numbering scheme as the NAG Fortran Library.

The Library is organized into Chapters - each being documented with its own Introduction and Contents list followed by a comprehensive document for each function detailing its purpose, description, list of parameters and possible error exits. Example programs and results are also supplied. All examples are available on-line to facilitate their use as templates for the users' calling programs.

The NAG Library for SMP & multicore Manual

The complete NAG Library for SMP & multicore Manual, Mark 22 can be viewed on-line in the following formats:

• XHTML+MathML: a version of the manual using XHTML and MathML;
• PDF+HTML: a full PDF manual which can be browsed using HTML index files;
• PDF: the same manual as above, consisting of many PDF files, may be browsed using PDF bookmarks and links rather than HTML index files;
• Single file PDF: the manual as a single PDF file (68MB);
• Windows html help: Windows html help version as a single file (13MB);
  (Note: due to windows security restrictions the help file may not be read directly from the internet. Save a copy to your local disk, and then read the local copy. Also depending on the Windows version installed you may need to unblock files copied from the internet before they may be used (right click on the help file and select properties then select the "unblock" button).

Advice on viewing and navigating the first three formats can be found in the Online Documentation help document. You are strongly advised to read this document if you wish to try the XHTML+MathML format.

The two single file formats are more compact than the formats using one file per routine, but of course are a larger download if you only need to view the documentation for a few routines. The total file size for the PDF+HTML tables of contents is 229MB. The total size for XHTML and examples files is 84MB.

The Library is organised into Chapters - each being documented with its own Introduction and Contents list followed by a comprehensive document for each function detailing its purpose, description, list of parameters and possible error exits. Example programs and results are also supplied. All examples are available on-line to facilitate their use as templates for the users' calling programs.

The NAG SMP Library Manual, Mark 21 and prior

The previous release of the NAG SMP Library Manual is still available: Mark 21 and Release 2.

Installer's Notes and Users' Notes

Support documentation for the installation and use of each implementation of the NAG Library for SMP & multicore is available.