Case Studies
See how NAG has improved productivity in multiple industries
For over four decades NAG has been the leading provider of expert numerical algorithms. Organizations from industries and academic areas as diverse as finance, business intelligence and business analytics, aerospace, astrophysics, engineering, oil & gas, ISVs (to name a few), rely on NAG to power their numerical capabilities.
NAG for Finance
- Investment Company utilize NAG Optimization Solvers to Calibrate Nonlinear Least Squares Problem.
- 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.
- Our Numerical Services case briefs include examples from the finance industry.
NAG for 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.
- Our Numerical Services case briefs have examples from analytics clients.
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.
- Our Numerical Services case briefs have examples from ISVs.
NAG for HPC
- 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 for 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 for 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 Algorithm 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
- 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.
- Our Numerical Services case briefs have examples from manufacturing companies.