Mark 24 of NAG C numerical library released

May 15th, 2014 | Categories: NAG Library | Tags:

I’ve been a user and supporter of the commercial numerical libraries from NAG for several years now, using them in MATLAB, Fortran, C and Python among others.  They recently updated their C library to version 24 which now includes 1516 functions apparently.

NAG’s routines are fast, accurate, extremely well supported and often based on cutting edge numerical research (I know this because academics at my University, The University of Manchester, is responsible for some of said research). I often use functions from the NAG C library in MATLAB mex routines in order to help speed up researcher’s code.

Here’s some of the new functionality in Mark 24.  A full list of functions is available at http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/CL/nagdoc_cl24/html/FRONTMATTER/manconts.html

• Hypergeometric function (1f1 and 2f1)
• Nearest Correlation Matrix
• Elementwise weighted nearest correlation matrix
• Wavelet Transforms & FFTs
    Three dimensional discrete single level and multi-level wavelet transforms
    Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs)  for two dimensional and three dimensional real data
• Matrix Functions
  Matrix square roots and general powers
  Matrix exponentials (Schur-Parlett)
  Fréchet Derivative
  Calculation of condition numbers
• Interpolation
— Interpolation for 5D and higher dimensions
• Optimization
 — Local optimization: Non-negative least squares
  Global optimization: Multi-start versions of general nonlinear programming and least squares routines
• Random Number Generatorss
— Brownian bridge and random fields
• Statistics
— Gaussian mixture model
— Best subsets of given size (branch and bound )
— Vectorized probabilities and probability density functions of distributions
— Inhomogeneous time series analysis, moving averages
— Routines that combines two sums of squares matrices to allow large datasets to be summarised

• Data fitting
 Fit of 2D scattered data by two-stage approximation (suitable for large datasets)
• Quadrature
  — 1D adaptive for badly-behaved integrals
• Sparse eigenproblem
  — Driver for real general matrix, driver for banded complex eigenproblem
  — Real and complex quadratic eigenvalue problems

• Sparse linear systems
   — block diagonal pre-conditioners and solvers
• ODE solvers
   — Threadsafe initial value ODE solvers
• Volatility
   — Heston model with term structure

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