NAG fl90, Release 4

FNW3204DCL - License Managed

Windows NT/2000/XP, Intel Visual Fortran

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 fl90. It is available together with the Users' Note (un.html) on the distribution medium.

Your attention is drawn to the terms and conditions of the Software License Agreement (in file lic_agr.txt, see Section 3.1) 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 fl90 that is considered suitable for operation on the computer systems detailed below:

hardware:         32-bit Intel systems and compatible
operating system: Windows NT/2000/XP
Fortran compiler: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 8.1
                  and compatible (including Version 9.0)

For information about implementations of NAG fl90 for use on other computer systems, please contact NAG (see Contact Addresses).

2.2. Derivation

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

hardware:         Intel Pentium 4, 2.99 GHz, 1.00 GB RAM
operating system: MS Windows XP Professional, Ver. 2002, Service Pack 2
                  MS Visual Studio .NET 2003
Fortran compiler: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 8.1
                  Build 20051008Z Package ID: w_fc_pc_8.1.036
utilities:        Intel MKL library, version 8.0
                  (the libraries needed are supplied)
This implementation has also been tested on the above computing system with the following Intel Compiler:
Fortran compiler: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 9.0
                  Build 20050809Z Package ID: W_FC_C_9.0.021

The entire NAG fl90 library, Release 4, was compiled with full optimization (/O3).

3. Distribution Medium

3.1. Contents

The following shows the folder/file organization of the Library materials as they will be installed.
                    |- in.html
            |- doc -|- un.html
            |       |- lic_agr.txt
            |
            |       |- nagfl90_nag.lib
            |- lib -|- nagfl90_mkl.lib
            |
            |- nagfl90_modules -|- *
fnw3204dcl -|
            |            |- source --|- *.f90
            |- examples -|- data  ---|- *.dat
            |            |- results -|- *.r
            |
            |         |- nagfl90_example.bat
            |- batch -|- nagfl90_example_mkl.bat
            |         |- envvars.bat
            |
            |- MKL_ia32_8.0 -|- lib -|- *.lib
            |
            |           |- bin -|- * (directories of binaries
            |           |             for supported platforms)
            |- license -|- README.TXT
                        |
                        |- doc -|- * (End User Guide)
where
  nagfl90_nag.lib  is a compiled library including NAG BLAS/LAPACK
  nagfl90_mkl.lib  is a compiled library without NAG BLAS/LAPACK
                   (MKL must be used with this library)

nagfl90_mkl.lib does not contain the NAG version of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) nor the linear algebra functions (LAPACK). It has been tested with the BLAS/LAPACK provided by the Intel ® Math Kernel Library 8.0 for Windows (MKL) which is included in this product. Please see the Intel web site for further information about MKL (http://www.intel.com/software/products/mkl).

By default, fnw3204dcl is installed beneath the folder C:\Program Files\NAG\FN04\.

The following shows the folder/file organization of the Library documentation materials as they will be installed. By default, manual is installed beneath the folder C:\Program Files\NAG\FN04\.

                 |- release4.html  (main index)
                 |- genint  ----------|- *.html  (introductory material)
        |- html -|- library_contents -|- *.html
        |        |- images  ----------|- *.gif
        |        |- [c01-c29]_*.html  (chapter indexes)
        |
        |        |- library_contents -|- *.pdf
manual -|        |- genint  ---|- *.pdf  (introductory material)
        |- pdf  -|- indexes  --|- *.pdf  (KWIC and GAMS)
        |        |- [c01-c29] -|- *.pdf  (chapter, module and
        |                                  procedure files)
        |
        |- examples -|- source -|- *.f90
                     |- data  --|- *.dat
 

3.2. File Sizes

The files sizes are given below. The actual disk space used is dependent on the hard disk allocation unit (cluster) size (this information is supplied by the DOS command CHKDSK):
compiled libraries:
          nagfl90_nag.lib     12.3 Mb
          nagfl90_mkl.lib     10.6 Mb
                                                                                
module information files:     12.0 Mb
example program material:      4.2 Mb
batch files:                  12.0 Kb
library documentation files:  56.0 Kb
manual documentation files:   21.8 Mb
licensing materials            1.5 Mb

MKL for ia32 (version 8.0)
      (lib folder, 4 files):  35.6 Mb

4. Installation

4.1. Library and Documentation Installation

4.1.1. Library Installation

You must have Administrator privileges to install this software.

If you have the Library materials on CD, insert the CD into your CD drive to display the NAG CD browser. Click on the Install ... button and follow the instructions to install the Library and/or the manual. If the CD does not autorun, run

e:\Demo32 Fortran_90_Library_Browser.dbd
to run the browser, or run e:\setup.exe to run the Library installation directly, where e is the drive letter for your CD drive.

If you have downloaded the Library materials from our website, run the self-extracting executable to start the Library installation. The Library manual materials are available as a separate download.

After installation, you should ensure that the software described in Section 3.1 is present and accessible.

If your machine has more than one processor, then it is recommended that you set the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS to the number of available processors, e.g.

set OMP_NUM_THREADS=2
This will enable the Intel MKL BLAS to make use of the extra processor(s) and will thus speed up the computation of many of the Library procedures.

The installation procedure will create a shortcut which starts a Command Prompt with the required local environment variables. The default location of this shortcut is in the Start Menu under

Start|Programs|NAG|FN04|NAG fl90 Library - Intel Visual Fortran compiler. Command Prompt

The local environment variable NAG_FNW3204DCL is needed by the batch files nagfl90_example.bat and nagfl90_example_mkl.bat (see Section 3.2 of the Users' Note (un.html)).

This software is provided with an uninstallation facility via Control Panel|Add/Remove programs.

Alternatively you could run the setup program again and select the Remove option.

4.1.2. PDF Documentation 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, or viewed from the NAG website (http://www.nag.co.uk/numeric/FN/FNdocumentation.asp).

If you have the Library materials on CD, insert the CD into your CD drive to display the NAG CD browser. Click on the Install ... button and follow the instructions to install the Library and/or the manual. If the CD does not autorun, run

e:\Demo32 Fortran_90_Library_Browser.dbd
to run the browser, or run e:\setup_manual.exe to run the Library manual installation directly, where e is the drive letter for your CD drive.

If you have downloaded the Library manual materials from our website, run the self-extracting executable to start the Library manual 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.

Free copies of Adobe Acrobat Reader 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 mathematical 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.

4.1.3. License Management

The use of the NAG Fortran Library is controlled by the Kusari license management system. This release of the NAG Fortran Library uses version 2.1 of Kusari.

In order to enable the software, NAG will issue you with a license key. The license key is contained in a text file consisting of details of the software that will be enabled.

To request a license key, run the program khostid located in the license\bin\w32\ subdirectory of the software distribution. This utility must be run from a command prompt. Return the information that it displays, together with the product code (in this case FNW3204DCL), by e-mail (or FAX) to NAG. Alternatively, direct the output from this utility to a file and send both the file and the product code to NAG.

A short term (demonstration or trial) license key contains one or more lines like the following:

FNW3204DC TRIAL 2006/11/12 "EMnxidA3oeoj0F1Yvi5ibxPjB7"
Specifically, it has a line containing the word TRIAL. Longer term license keys must be locked to a specific computer, i.e. they will enable the software on one computer only. These license keys include the word NODE instead of the word TRIAL above.

Once you have obtained one of the above license keys, store the text of it in a file, say

 [INSTALL_DIR]\license.lic.

The location of the license file must be made known to the NAG application by setting the environment variable NAG_KUSARI_FILE to the full pathname of the file before the application is invoked.

The environment variable may be set as follows:

  1. Open System in the Control Panel (this may be under the performance and maintenance category).
  2. On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables, click New, insert NAG_KUSARI_FILE as the variable name and the name of the license file, e.g.
    c:\Program Files\NAG\FN04\fnw3204dcl\license.lic
    
    as the value.

Further details about Kusari and how it may be configured to suit your local circumstances are included in the Kusari License Management documentation in the license/doc/ subdirectory of the software distribution.

4.2. Release to Users

The Users' Note (un.html) should be checked and amended as necessary (particularly Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 5). Advice on accessing the library (see Users' Note, Section 3.1) can be checked by running a few example programs following that advice; a suitable sample would be nag_quad_1d_ex01, nag_nlp_ex01 and nag_gen_lin_sys_ex01. The installation can also be tested using the script nagfl90_example* (see Users' Note, Section 3.2). 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 FN04\manual folder contains the online documentation. This should be made available to users, in addition to the following:

compiled libraries:

  lib\nagfl90_nag.lib
  lib\nagfl90_mkl.lib
  MKL_ia32_8.0\lib\*.lib
module information files:
  nagfl90_modules\*.mod
example program material:
  examples\source\*.f90
  examples\data\*.dat
  examples\results\*.r
  batch\nagfl90_example*

Note that the example material has been adapted, if necessary, from that published in the NAG fl90 Manual, so that programs are suitable for execution with this implementation with no further changes. Making the example material directly available to users provides them with easily adaptable templates for their own problems.

4.3. Further Information

For best performance, we recommend that you should use the variant of the NAG fl90 Library which is based on the supplied MKL libraries i.e. nagfl90_mkl.lib. However if you use another version of MKL and you have problems when calling a NAG routine, we suggest that you use nagfl90_mkl.lib with the supplied MKL or the self-contained library nagfl90_nag.lib.

4.3.1. Example Programs

The example results distributed were generated at Release 4, using 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 installer should ensure that the advice given to users in Section 3.1 of the Users' Note (un.html) is suitable for the installation. This can be done by running a few example programs following that advice. The installation can also be tested using the batch files nagfl90_example.bat and nagfl90_example_mkl.bat.

The batch nagfl90_example_mkl.bat uses the MKL provided with this implementation (version 8.0). If you have another version of MKL and would like to use it in place of the MKL provided, you need to modify the batch file and both the PATH and LIB environment variables to reflect your MKL version and installation. The advice given to users in Section 3.1 of the Users' Note (un.html) may need updating.

4.3.2. Maintenance Level

The maintenance level of the Library can be determined by compiling and executing the example that calls the procedure nag_lib_ident or you could call the batch nagfl90_example with the argument nag_lib_ident_ex01. See Users' Note, Example Programs . This example prints out details of the implementation, including title and product code, compiler and precision used, release and maintenance level.

5. Documentation

On-line documentation is bundled with this implementation. Please see Section 4.

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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Appendix - Contact Addresses

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