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Technical Tips & Hints

Over time NAG's technical experts have offered technical tips to assist users with NAG's products. The following short articles have been collected from prior NAGNews issues as well as from NAG's Response Centre's repository of technical solutions.

Please let us know by email if you have tips you'd like to share.

Computing and the NAG Libraries

• Using the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
• Command Line Arguments in NAGWare f95 Release 5.1 Code.
• Kusari Licence Management System
• Calling the Mark 21 DLLs from g77 and gcc
• Getting the best performance from your NAG Library
• Mark 21 Fortran DLLs
• Windows Computing from Microsoft Office Suite
• Replacing NAG Fortran Library routines with their SMP equivalents
• Decision Trees in the NAG Library documentation
• Advice for Upgrading to Mark 21 of the NAG Fortran Library
• Using Example Programs Within the NAG Libraries
• Problems at Runtime When Calling a NAG Routine
• SMP Library - Pseudo-Random Numbers and OpenMP Parallel Regions
• The NAG SMP Library on Heavily Loaded Systems
• SMP Library - Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs)
• Analysing Binary Data
• Sparse Linear Algebra
• Scaling and Optimization
• Mesh Generation
• Black-Scholes Solvers & Thread Safety in the Fortran Library
• The NAG Fortran Library, Random Number Generators and Time Series Analysis
• NAG Fortran Library and Absoft Pro Fortran Version 9.0

Compilers & Tools

• Command Line Arguments in NAGWare f95 Release 5.1 Code.
• NAG Fortran DLL's and the Salford FTN95 Compiler
• User Tips for NAGWare
• NAGWare f95 Compiler and Posix Functions

IRIS Explorer

• Creating a Volume From a Series of Images

Data Mining

• Using Data Mining Components

Add-Ins for Excel

• Extending the Use of the NAG Statistical Add-Ins
• N-SEA: A Few Starter Hints
• Statistical Add-Ins for Excel: A Macro for Simplifying the Use of Array Functions

Calling NAG Routines from Other Programs

• Using the NAG DLLs with the Lahey Compiler
• Using the NAG DLL Implementations From Microsoft Office Suite
• Calling NAG Routines From Excel
• Using the NAG C Library With the Microsoft Visual C++ IDE
• Calling NAG C Library Routines from Java