Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:01:29 -0800
From: Jack Rubinger 
Subject: PGI - NAG Announcement



DOWNERS GROVE, IL, Oct 29, 1999 - The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and 
The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI) today announced immediate Availability of an 
optimized version of the NAG Fortran Library for Intel processor-based 
Linux workstations, servers and clusters. Mark 18 of the NAG Fortran 
Library for Linux is built and validated using PGI's optimizing Linux 
Fortran compiler, and is fully interoperable with the latest release of 
PGI's Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools for Linux.

The NAG Library comprises reusable software components packaged to provide 
application developers with mathematical and statistical functionality 
saving development time and resources. Complete with optimized components 
for performing Fast Fourier Transforms, optimization, eigenvalue problems, 
linear algebra, statistics, and operations research, the NAG Library is 
widely used in financial, engineering and aerospace applications. 

"This is great news for Linux scientific and technical users," said Douglas 
Miles, vice president of marketing and sales at PGI, "The NAG Fortran Library 
incorporates literally hundreds of programmer years of development, tuning, 
and testing of the most commonly used algorithms for technical computing. 
It allows programmers the luxury of programming at a higher level of 
abstraction, with an assurance that details related to system-specific 
tuning and accuracy are in good hands with the folks at NAG." 

Visit The Portland Group website at http://www.pgroup.com.

The NAG Fortran Library is supported on a wide variety of workstation and 
server systems, ensuring portability of end-user applications. For a full 
list of software components and functionality in Mark 18 of the NAG Fortran 
Library, visit the NAG website at http://www.nag.com or 
http://www.nag.co.uk

NAG is a leader in development, porting, distributing and supporting 
scientific software components. NAG supplies a range of software 
components, compilers, tools and associated products for the professional 
programmer in business, industry and education. NAG has offices in 
Chicago, Oxford, Munich and Tokyo, and is represented by distributors 
worldwide.

PGI is a leading supplier of high performance Fortran, C and C++ compilers 
and software tools for high-end parallel computing systems and Intel 
processor-based workstations, servers, and clusters.

For Further Information contact: 
Tony Nilles VP Sales and Marketing Numerical Algorithms Group 
nilles@nag.com Phone: 630-971-2337 Fax: 630-971-2706 www.nag.com 
Douglas Miles VP Mktg & Sales The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI) 
miles@pgroup.com (503) 682-2806 (ph) (503) 682-2637 (fx) www.pgroup.com

Jack Rubinger
The Bernhardt Agency
503.469.9209
jackr@bernhardt.com