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Academic Site License Program

The ALSI program from Numerical Algorithms Group is designed to provide higher education institutions with access to NAG's world class scientific software products. Under this unique site license, faculty, staff, and students from multiple departments can take advantage of the NAG suite of scientific and mathematical software products, continuously proven and enhanced over the last 25 years, all for an extremely low annual fee. The NAG ASLI software runs on the most popular UNIX workstations, Windows 95, Windows NT, and high performance computing environments.

The NAG ASLI program is packaged in two parts. The core ASLI includes numerical libraries, portable compilers, scientific 3D visualization tools built on open standards, computer algebra, and statistics software.

The ASLI High Performance Computer Option (ASLI-HPCO) includes everything found in the core ASLI, plus library software for Symmetric Multi Processor (SMP) computers.

The core ASLI covers the following UNIX workstations and PC environments:
Apple MAC OS X; Alpha UNIX; Hewlett Packard 9000 HP-UX; IBM RS/6000 AIX; Silicon Graphics IRIX; SUN Solaris; Intel LINUX; Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

The ASLI-HPCO (High Performance Computer Option) covers the following machines:
Alpha 4000; Alpha 8000; HP Convex; IBM SP; SGI Challenge; SGI Power Challenge; SGI Origin 2000; Sun Ultra Enterprise

The ASLI-Data Mining (Data Mining Option) covers the following machines:
Windows DLL; Linux (Intel); Sun Solaris

The following products are included in the Core ASLI:

• NAG FORTRAN 77 Library - world's largest mathematical subroutine library, containing 1,152 highly efficient, user-callable numerical subroutines
• NAG C Library - a suite of 275 numerical routines designed and written in C, covering a wide range of mathematical and statistical functions.
• NAG FORTRAN 90 Library - a library of routines designed to take advantage of the powerful new features of FORTRAN 90
• NAG Parallel Libraries - libraries of numerical procedures produced specifically for distributed memory parallel machines or networks of workstations; available in MPI and PVM versions
• NAG FORTRAN Compiler - the world's first compiler to support the FORTRAN 90 ANSI/ISO standard; robust and stable.
• IRIS Explorer - an object oriented scientific programming system for visualizing, manipulating, and analyzing data, and for developing scientific and engineering applications quickly and intuitively. Based on OPEN/GL, and OPEN Inventor.

The ASLI - High Performance Computer Option includes:

• All software identified in the core ASLI above.
• NAG FORTRAN SMP Library - is aimed at users who wish to make efficient use of the increased processing , power and salability of Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) computers. This library offers significant speed improvements of the standard NAG FORTRAN 77 Library and over the Hardware Vendor's LAPACK implementations that benefit over 50 routines mainly in the areas of Linear Algebra, FFTs, and Multivariate Statistics. In addition, the NAG FORTRAN SMP Library includes the full functionality of the NAG FORTRAN 77 Library.

The ASLI - Data Mining Option includes:

• NAG Data Mining Components are specifically developed for the rigours of data mining, our Data Mining Components - statistical and machine learning software - are robust, reliable and accurate. Easy to integrate and use, NAG components can be used at each stage of the modelling process - from data cleaning through data transformation to model building.

Since September 1997, ASLI has been adopted by dozens of major academic institutions in the US and Canada, including:

For pricing information, or if you have comments or suggestions, email us at asli@nag.com.