Case Studies
See the benefits that NAG brings to industry and academia
NAG in the finance industry
- Financial Services Company leverages NAG’s products and expertise in AD, task orchestration, GPU accelerators and core analytics
- DekaBank improves modelling accuracy and risk management with NAG® dco/c++
- Investment Company utilize NAG Optimization Solvers to Calibrate Nonlinear Least Squares Problem.
- NAG improves speed of banking analysis and pricing services application
- Swedish national pension buffer fund use NAG Library for speed and accuracy.
- Morningstar use NAG Library routines to assist portfolio construction and optimization.
- Global asset management company enhances portfolio construction tool with NAG routines.
- Smartleaf offers daily tune-ups on personalized portfolios with the help of NAG optimization routines.
- Optimizing Omega - using NAG global optimization routines when the Omega function is used as a basis for portfolio selection.
- Market Non-participation - Solve a general equilibrium model with endogenous stock market non-participation using NAG.
- Automotive finance firm optimizes loan offers with NAG expertise

NAG in Business Intelligence & Business Analytics
- Business Intelligence software company uses NAG to add advanced solvers to their application.
- The NAG Library is used for theatre capacity planning by running linear regressions for Share Dimension.
- Rapidly develop an application for forecasting from NAG routines - CACI finds it easy.
- NAG helps create competitive advantage for DemandTec.
- ZS Associates use the NAG Library for data analysis when guiding hundreds of millions of dollars of marketing expenditure.
- Using the NAG Library to underpin advanced Transport Planning and Optimization.
NAG for Independent Software Vendors
- NAG (via the POP project) audits computational chemistry software for Software for Chemistry & Materials (SCM) and suggests code improvements to communications scheme.
- A major software vendor used NAG to assure the quality of the numerical functions in their spread sheet application.
- QinetiQ GRC use NAG for marine design.
- NAG helps create competitive advantage for DemandTec.
- Rapidly develop an application for forecasting from NAG routines - CACI finds it easy.
- Smartleaf offers daily tune-ups on personalized portfolios with the help of NAG routines.
NAG in HPC
- 3 x Speed Improvement Achieved for Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver
- NAG HPC Consulting Experts Enhance Computational Fluid Dynamics Application For Optimised Ship Design
- Computational Cost Halved for Oil & Gas Seismic Code Through NAG HPC Expertise
- Performance Improvements on Suite of Computational Chemistry HPC Codes
- NAG and Intel® collaborate to develop proto-apps to improve performance for users of high performance codes.
- Load balancing issues uncovered by NAG (via the POP project) in a particle tracking application.
- NAG (via the POP project) audits computational chemistry software for Software for Chemistry & Materials (SCM) and suggests code improvements to communications scheme.
- Performance of Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations (GLOMAP/TOMCAT) Enhanced by CSE Team.
- NAG helps a software company refactor their desktop application to make use of HPC systems for Oil & Gas pipeline simulations with remote visualization.
- Parallel algorithms at Queen's University, Ontario - Why the NAG Library for SMP & Multicore?
- NAG's CSE Team Quadruple Performance of Quantum Monte-Carlo Application - CASINO.
- CSE Team Enhances Speed and I/O Performance of Oceanography Code - NEMO.
- CSE Team Quadruples Speed and Enhances Scalability of Key Materials Science Code - CASTEP.

NAG in Oil & Gas and Power
- Computational Cost Halved for Oil & Gas Seismic Code Through NAG HPC Expertise
- NAG helps a software company refactor their desktop application to make use of HPC systems for Oil & Gas pipeline simulations with remote visualization.
- Powergen optimizes power plant performance using NAG algorithms.
- Detonation Modelling for the Mining and Quarrying Industries: Use of the NAG Fortran Library.
- PSI use NAG services to help with pipeline optimization.
NAG in Science
- NAG (via the POP project) audits computational chemistry software for Software for Chemistry & Materials (SCM) and suggests code improvements to communications scheme.
- Load balancing issues uncovered by NAG (via the POP project) in a particle tracking application.
- University of Cambridge Research Fellow praises the NAG Fortran Compiler
- Particle Physics application uses the NAG Fortran Compiler to produce correct code more quickly and efficiently.
- NAG Optimization Solvers speeds up configuration testing of powerful MRI magnet and helps secure development.
- NAG Library enables Department of Health to use latest parallel numerical routines.
- NAG services provide quadruple precision routines for accurate satellite sensor simulation.
- Using the NAG library to help analyse the variation in data from the environment.
- Using NAG to solve a nonlinear fourth-order quantum diffusion equation at Vienna University of Technology.
- Peter Jimack, School of Computing, University of Leeds: Development and application of efficient and reliable software for the simulation of multiscale phase-change problems.
- Postdoctoral Fellow uses The NAG Library to help with quantum dot computations at International Center for Theoretical Physics.
- Middlesex University Modelling Group Uses the NAG Library for Analytical Modelling, Performance, Availability and Performability Evaluation of Communication Systems.
- NAG Library Aids Spintronics in Magnetic Nanostructures at The University of Graz.
- Using the NAG Library to assist with mathematics research into diabetes modelling.
- Atmospheric Chemistry on the Web.
- Understanding subsonic and supersonic nozzle flow using the NAG Library.
- Oxford Professor uses NAG components to aid the design of new magnetic materials.
- Using the NAG Fortran Library to model the economic impact of climate change.
NAG for Manufacturing
- Team Sonnenwagen Optimize Solar Racing Car Aerodynamics Using NAG Algorithmic Differentiation Software Tool – dco/c++
- NAG Library Algorithms Provide Numerics for Helicopter Design & Analysis
- NAG Library routines help speed up Aspirating Smoke Detector design tool ASD PipeFlow for Securiton AG
- PSI use NAG services to help with pipeline optimization.
- QinetiQ GRC use NAG for marine design.
- Air Products builds Complex Physical Models with the help of reliable NAG components.
- Datacolor looks for development speed-ups.
- WaferState Controls Inc. Eliminates debugging cycles using NAG code.
- WCI streamlines production with NAG code.

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