NAG Fortran Library, Mark 20

FLW3220DLL - License Managed

Microsoft Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP,
Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95,
Double Precision

Installer's Note



Contents


1. Introduction

This Installer's Note is essential reading for whoever is responsible for the installation of this implementation of the NAG Fortran Library. It is supplied in printed form to accompany the software, and is also available together with the Users' Note (un.html) in the doc folder of the installed product.

Your attention is drawn to the terms and conditions of the Software Licence regarding the use of NAG software. Any request to use this software other than on the licensed computer must be referred to NAG, as should requests for information about the availability of other implementations.

2. Implementation Provided

2.1. Applicability

This implementation is a compiled, tested, ready-to-use version of the NAG Fortran Library that is considered suitable for operation on the computer systems detailed below:

hardware:         Intel Pentium systems and compatible
operating system: Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP
Fortran compiler: Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95
Separate implementations on the same CD are provided for LF95 versions 5.6 and 5.7.

2.2. Derivation

This implementation was produced at NAG Ltd., Oxford on the computing system detailed below:

hardware:         Intel Xeon
operating system: Windows 2000
Fortran compiler: Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran Release 5.60f and 5.70d
compiler options: -nco -nw -tp -nstchk -ntrace -nli -nomap

The entire NAG Fortran Library, Mark 20, was compiled with full optimization (-O1), except for the following routines, which had to be compiled with -O0:

   E02AHZ   F11DNY   G03FAZ

This library has been tested using the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) and linear algebra routines (LAPACK) provided by NAG only. (See the Chapter Introductions for F06, F07 and F08 in the NAG Fortran Library Manual.)

3. Distribution Medium

The software is ordinarily distributed on CD-ROM.

3.1. Contents

The following shows the folder/file organization of the library materials as they will be installed.

                      |-- in.html
            |-- doc --|-- un.html
            |         |-- blas_lapack_to_nag
            |         |-- nag_to_blas_lapack
            |         |-- lic_agr.txt
            |
            |-- bin --|-- key_inst.exe
            |         |-- setup.txt
            |
            |-- lib --|--nag.lib
flw3220dll--|
            |-- interface_blocks --|-- *.mod
            |
            |              |-- source ---|-- ??????e.f
            |-- examples --|-- data -----|-- ??????e.d
            |              |-- results --|-- ??????e.r
            |
            |              |-- envvars.orig
            |-- batch -----|-- envvars.bat
                           |-- nagex.bat

The following shows the folder/file organization of the PDF documentation materials.

  Manual --|-- html --|-- mark20.html
           |          |
           |          |-- frontmatter --|-- foreword.html
           |          |-- genint -------|-- *.html
           |          |-- images -------|-- *.*
           |          |-- indexes ------|-- *.*
           |          |-- toc ----------|-- *.html
           |          |-- libdoc.css
           |
           |-- pdf ---|-- * ------------|-- *.pdf

3.2. File Sizes

The files require approximately the following disk space:
compiled library:              16.8 Mb
interface blocks:               0.6 Mb
example program material:      13.1 Mb
batch files:                     12 Kb
library documentation files:     68 Kb
PDF documentation files:        126 Mb

4. Installation

4.1. Library Installation

You should have Administrator privileges to install this software.

The CD contains an InstallShield SETUP executable file (.EXE) for each library implementation and a Windows Installer package for the manual (manual.msi). Installation of the manual is optional. It may be viewed from the CD or installed onto local disk as described in Section 4.2.

To install the Library insert the CD into your CD drive to display the NAG Library Setup Menu. If the Setup Menu does not display, run e:\setup.exe where e is the drive letter for your CD drive. Select Install the library for LF95 v5.6 or Install the library for LF95 v5.7. Windows Installer will lead you through the installation.

Installation of the Library requires a license key, which will be provided by NAG. This will either be a `Trial' key, which will allow you to try out the library for a limited period of time, or a `Fully Paid' key which enables use of the library indefinitely on a specific workstation. If you do not have a key, Installer will generate a file (usually saved as C:\NagKeyRqst.txt), which may be E-mailed or faxed to NAG (see Appendix). In return NAG will send you a valid license key.

Should you need to re-install the license key, (for example to replace a trial key), locate and run the utility bin\key_inst.exe.

Once in possession of a valid license key, begin the installation process again. You will be prompted for the license key. Once this has been entered the process will continue.

If the Fortran compiler is not installed in the folder C:\LF9556 or C:\LF9557 the environment variable COMP_DIR in the file batch\envvars.bat must be modified to show the path to the folder in which the compiler is installed.

Installation will create the shortcut

   Start|Programs|Numerical Algorithms Group|FL20|LF95 with NAG Lib. Command Prompt
which is originally set to launch the command processor CMD.EXE. On Windows 98 and Me systems, the shortcut must be modified as follows (to modify a shortcut, right-click the Start button, and navigate to the shortcut, right-click it, then select Properties | Shortcut):
  1. Change the command interpreter from ...\CMD.EXE to C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
  2. Add the argument /E:3072 before the argument /K
  3. Change the last argument from
       ""C:\Program Files\NAG\FL20\flw3220dll\batch\envvars.bat""
    
    to
       "C:\PROGRA~1\NAG\FL20\flw3220dll\batch\envvars.bat"
    

The shortcut may then be used to start a command prompt window with the correct environment variables to use the Lahey/Fujitsu compiler with the NAG Fortran Library.

You may wish to copy this shortcut from C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Numerical Algorithms Group\FL20 into the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Lahey-Fujitsu Fortran 95 v5.6 or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Lahey-Fujitsu Fortran 95 v5.7

4.2. Library Manual PDF Installation

It is not necessary to install the Library manual. Users may access it directly on the distribution CD, or it may be installed on a different workstation or server.

To install the Library manual in PDF insert the CD into your CD drive to display the NAG Library Setup Menu. If the Setup Menu does not display, run e:\setup.exe where e is the drive letter for your CD drive. Select Install the library manual. Alternatively you could run e:\manual.msi. Windows Installer will lead you through the installation.

You may wish to move the PDF documentation files to the same location as that for other NAG products. You are encouraged to make them readily available to users, but in such a way that they are not generally accessible from outside your site.

If you do not already have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader for your platform, a free copy can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/. Please check this site for availability of a reader for your platform.

Please note that if you are using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or earlier you might experience some problems when printing documents that contain non-standard characters, such as integral signs, square roots and large brackets. These characters will print correctly using Adobe Acrobat 5.0.

The HTML form of the Essential Introduction contains some mathematical characters that are displayed as question marks by releases of Netscape earlier than 6, but these are displayed correctly by Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer. They may also be viewed via the PDF.

If using Netscape, it might be necessary to re-install Acrobat to ensure that the Acrobat plug-in has been installed. If the plug-in has not been installed, Netscape may copy PDF files to a temporary folder, and then not be able to navigate from there.

4.3. Release to Users

A shortcut to the Users' Note will have been installed under all users'
   Start|Programs|Numerical Algorithms Group|FL20
Another shortcut will have been created if the Library Manual PDF was installed onto local disk. Users who access the software via a mapped drive or file server must also be informed of the location of these documents.

The Users' Note (doc\un.html) should be checked and amended as necessary (particularly Sections 3.1 and 5). Advice on accessing the library in Section 3.1 can be checked by running a few example programs following that advice; a suitable sample would be A02AAF, D01AUF, G05LFF and X03AAF. The installation can also be tested using the script nagex.bat. The Users' Note should then be made available to users directly, or be absorbed into local access information.

The following material should also be made accessible to users:

documentation files:

The FL20\Manual folder contains the online documentation. This should be made available to users, in addition to the following:

doc\blas_lapack_to_nag
doc\nag_to_blas_lapack
compiled libraries:
lib\nag.lib
interface block files:
interface_blocks\*.mod
example program material:
examples\source\??????e.f
examples\data\??????e.d
examples\results\??????e.r
batch\envvars.bat
batch\nagex.bat

Note that the example material has been adapted, if necessary, from that published in the NAG Fortran Library Manual, so that programs are suitable for execution with this implementation with no further changes (but see Section 4.4.2 for comments about possible differences in results obtained). Making the example material directly available to users provides them with easily adaptable templates for their own problems.

4.4. Further Information

4.4.1. Output Unit Dependencies (X04)

Certain NAG routines use explicit WRITE statements to produce output directly. The choice of output unit used can be controlled by using X04AAF and X04ABF, described in the NAG Fortran Library Manual. The defaults for this implementation are given in the Users' Note.

4.4.2. Example Programs

The example results distributed were generated using NAG.LIB and the software described in Section 2.2. These example results may not be exactly reproducible if the example programs are run in a slightly different environment (for example, a different Fortran compiler, a different compiler library, different arithmetic hardware, or a different set of BLAS or LAPACK routines). The results which are most sensitive to such differences are: eigenvectors (which may differ by a scalar multiple, often -1, but sometimes complex); numbers of iterations and function evaluations; and residuals and other "small" quantities of the same order as the machine precision.

The "example programs" for the routines in the F06 chapter are not typical example programs and they are not in the Library Manual. They are test programs, which are supplied to sites for use in an installation test of the Library. Some of them take much longer to run than other example programs. Routines which are equivalent to BLAS, are tested twice: once when called by their NAG F06 names, and once when called by their BLAS names.

4.4.3. Maintenance Level

The maintenance level of the library can be determined by writing a simple program to call A00AAF, which prints out details of the implementation, including title and product code, compiler and precision used, mark and maintenance level.

5. Documentation

Each supported NAG Fortran Library site is ordinarily provided with a printed copy of the NAG Fortran Library Introductory Guide. Additional documentation is available for purchase; please refer to the NAG websites or contact your local NAG Response Centre for current prices (see Section 6).

Online documentation is bundled with this implementation. Please see Section 4.2.

6. Support from NAG

(a) Contact with NAG

Queries concerning this document or the implementation generally should be directed initially to your local Advisory Service. If you have difficulty in making contact locally, you can contact NAG directly at one of the addresses given in the Appendix. Users subscribing to the support service are encouraged to contact one of the NAG Response Centres (see below).

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The Response Centres are open during office hours, but contact is possible by fax, email and phone (answering machine) at all times.

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Appendix - Contact Addresses

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