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Maple 6

The NEW Maple 6 embodies revolutionary technological enhancements and new functionality that dramatically speeds up complex, technical computation projects.
The new math engine delivers the world's first tightly integrated suite of symbolic and numerical solvers. With enhanced usability, and a new set of advanced programming features, Maple 6 offers unprecedented computing power to scientific and engineering users in industry, research, and education. Maple 6 combines the flexibility and intelligence of Waterloo Maple's symbolic computation algorithms with the reliability, accuracy and power of the NAG numerical solver. Through this new technology, users can perform end-to-end technical computations for projects that formerly required the use of several separate packages or libraries.
Maple 6 responds to user demands for greater performance and functionality. The new computation engine to be released with Maple 6 centers on the use of NAG's renowned matrix computation algorithms adapted and optimized for Maple's unique, interactive environment.
Performance improvements will be of benefit in many key technical areas such as signal and image processing, dynamic simulation, and mathematical modeling. Waterloo Maple has also introduced several key end- user features in Maple 6's programming language, large-scale floating point data handling, and user interface, to ensure that users can easily access and benefit from the engine's immense potential. Additional features in Maple 6 that complement the new engine include seamless connectivity to Microsoft Excel 2000 and the ability to export to Rich Text Format (RTF). Both of these features allow users to coordinate and share data between Maple 6 and popular general productivity tools. A suite of new language features aimed at programmers delivers greater flexibility to more users.
 

For nearly 30 years, hundreds of the world's top computer scientists have collaborated with Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) to bring breakthroughs in computer science to bear on the world of technical computing. Although largely unrecognized by the nontechnical audience, their work has had vast impact on users of supercomputers and small desktop units alike. Today, virtually everyone who uses computers for statistical, scientific, or engineering applications is touched by NAG innovation.

Thousands of professionals in virtually every industrial or scientific field have relied on NAGÍs numerical and statistical software.

Intel's Math Kernel Library, and countless other technical computing applications contain technology from the Numerical Algorithms Group. NAG code is everywhere.By mastering the complexities of numeric analysis and software development, NAG creates practical, robust, accurate and reliable tools for technical computing. Ultimately, these tools help create optimized stock portfolios, reveal unexpected insights from market data, reduce hurricane damage, design cars, and profitably find oil reserves.

As computers evolve, technical computing requirements grow ever more complex. NAG Libraries are regularly updated, fully documented and supported, and designed for portability. What ever the future holds, organizations can rely on NAG for their continuing numerical and statistical software needs.
To ensure optimal performance and portability the NAG software utilizes standard building blocks such as the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). Today, nearly all commercially available software packages with numeric components conform to these standards that NAG was involved in developing and promoting.

For more information about NAG, go to http://www.nag.com For information on Intel's implemen-tation of BLAS, see http:// developer.intel.com/vtune/ perflibst/mkl/index.htm.