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NAG 2005 Agreement: Overview

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1. Agreement Details

(i) Product full name

NAG Libraries and associated software products ("NAG software"). (see 4. Products Covered)

(ii) Product owner

(a) NAG products
The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd ("NAG")

(iii) Product supplier

The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG)
Wilkinson House
Jordan Hill Road
Oxford
OX2 8DR

(iv) Agreement Period

This Agreement will remain in force from 1 August 2005 until 31 July 2010. Institutions have been able to select either a 3 year or 5 year licence.

(v) Institution Commitment Period

(a)   three (3) years
(b)   five (5) years


Sites can extend a 3 year licence for a further 2 years from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2010.

Sites joining in the last 2 years of this agreement will be committed from the time of signing to 31 July 2010

The Agreement to which this refers is a formal agreement between Eduserv and NAG.

2. Eligible Sites

This Agreement is available to institutions of Higher and Further Education in the United Kingdom. As with the previous NAG agreements, the Research Councils are excluded.

3. Background Detail / Community Evaluation

Chest has had agreements for NAG Software since 1990, during which time as many as 75 sites have taken advantage of one or all of the agreements. This new Agreement extends the licence period to 2010.

4. Products Covered

The Agreement covers the following products:

1 Note: No longer maintained or suppported - not available for new licences.

The charges also include support, new versions, system releases and associated new documentation. New platforms will be available within the charges if and when commercially available from NAG.

5. Product Descriptions

The NAG Product Portfolio

Mathematics and technology for optimized performance:

The NAG Fortran Library           The largest, commercially available numerical and statistical components library available today. Providing over 1500 tried and tested, high quality numerical algorithms.

The NAG Fortran 90 Library

The World's first numerical and statistical components library written in Fortran 90; compliant with both Fortran 90 and Fortran 95, the Fortran standards.
The NAG Fortran C LibraryProviding over 850 of NAG's globally renowned statistical and numerical components for C programmers.
The NAG C Header FilesThe easy way to incorporate Fortran Library or Graphics Library subroutines into your C Programs.
The NAG Data Mining & Cleaning Components (DMC)Numerical and statistical components developed specifically for those adding data mining and cleaning techniques to their applications.

The NAG High Performance Computing (HPC) Libraries:
The NAG SMP Libary                                  Providing all the quality and functionality of the NAG Fortran Library, the NAG SMP Library is optimized for use on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) computers.
The NAG Parallel LibrarySpecifically developed numerical and statistical components for applications that employ Message-Passing parallelism.

NAGWare Compilers and tools:
The NAGWare F90/95 Compiler                     A full ISO/ANSI standard Fortran Compiler. Input can be Fortran 77, 90or 95 and/or HPF and a number of common Fortran 77 extensions are allowed. A number of Fortran 2003 features have been implemented.
NAG Fortran Tools1A suite of Fortran 77/90 programming tools.
The NAG Gateway Generator1Automatically generates MATLAB gateways by scanning Fortran source code.
1 Note: No longer maintained or supported - not available for new licences.

Visualisation - Libraries, toolkits and packages for graphical presentation:
IRIS Explorer                          A powerful, sophisticated, yet easy-to-use visualisation package with a user environment that allows users and application developers to build applications for visualising complex sets of data.
The NAG Graphics LibraryA stand-alone Fortran subroutine library which generates graphical output, and interfaces to many different plotting packages.


NAG Library Connector products

NAG toolbox for MATLABThe NAG Toolbox for MATLAB is a comprehensive set of interfaces to mark 21 of the NAG Fortran Library and comes with integrated documentation available inside the MATLAB environment
Maple-NAG Connector  The Maple-NAG connector provides a front end to the NAG C Library.  Maple and this toolbox together provide you with an integrated environment to make your code development easier
 


6. Location and Use Permissions

Authorised Users


"Authorised Users" are those individuals who are authorised by the Licensee to access the Licensee's information services available through the Licensee's Secure Network and who are:
  1. affiliated with the Licensee as a current student, faculty, employee, or in some other capacity whereby they are permitted to access such services in the Licensee's ordinary course of business, whether from a computer or terminal on the Licensee's Secure Network, or offsite via a modem link to a valid IP address on the Licensee's Secure Network;
  2. additionally, in the case of walk-in users, they must be physically present on the Licensee's premises.

It is a requirement of the Licensee (Institution) that it is satisfied that the user is an employee, student, or other person authorised by the Licensee for the purposes of the normal business of the Licensee's organisation.

7. Platforms

Please refer to NAG's Product Availability list www.nag.co. uk/scripts/AvailLis.pl

Detailed advice about the most appropriate implementation can be found in the Installer's and Users' Notes www.nag.co.uk/doc/inun.asp

8. Requirements

Please refer to the NAG website for full machine requirements of NAG products. The software is controlled by licence keys. New keys are issued by the NAG Response Centre support@nag.co.uk.

9. Institution Evaluation Copy / Exhibition Licence

Evaluation copies are available for the software covered under this Agreement, contact NAG for further information.

10. Licence Type

Site-wide licence
Site licence with normal Chest terms and conditions of use. Copying of the Software is allowed at any licensed Institution for use in accordance with Clause 3 of the General Licence Conditions and the standard "Code of Conduct for the Use of Software or Data" 

Department Licence
With normal Chest terms and conditions of use except that use of the licensed software is restricted to the students registered with the Institution to conduct research work guided by the Head of the Licensed Department; attend classes associated with that Head of Department; and to instructors and researchers employed by the Institution to work with that Head of Department.

11. Personal Licences

Personal copies are not available under this Agreement.

12. Post Termination of Agreement

At the end of an Institution's licence sites are required to remove all copies of software from their systems and sign a termination letter.

Termination of NAG Products
Sites deleting an implementation from a licence are required to delete the NAG software from the licensed processor and destroy it. NAG software includes any NAG routines that have been embedded in software and distributed within the site.

13. Product Documentation

Documentation is provided electronically in pdf or html format. It is also available from the NAG website www.nag.co.uk/support_documentation.asp. Users wishing to obtain printed documentation may purchase direct from NAG. A Documentation Order Form is provided on the NAG website

14. Right to Copy Documentation

Copying of documentation and software is permitted.

15. Training and Training Materials

NAG Training
In-house training on NAG products is available, for current prices contact NAG.

16. System Releases, New Versions and New Functionality

One copy of system releases and/or new versions will be sent by NAG to Licensed Sites as and when they become commercially available.

17. Initial Consultancy/Support

Sites holding site-wide licences are entitled to up to a maximum of six Technical Contacts per product licensed.

Sites holding department licences are entitled to two Technical Contacts per product licensed.

Additional pairs of Technical Contacts may be added for a charge of £250 plus VAT per annum.

Telephone support will be provided by NAG to the designated Technical Contact(s) or his/her deputy(ies).

A form is provided to record the Technical Contact details for the first two products licensed. Changes to these details, and details of contacts for third and subsequent products should be recorded on a Modification to Schedule 4 Form.

NAG Contact Details:

Switchboard:01865 511 245
Technical Support:support@nag.co.uk
Account Manager:John Holden
Phone:01865 518052 (Direct Line)
Fax:01865 310139
Email:john.holden@nag.co.uk
Address:The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd
 Wilkinson House
 Jordan Hill Road
 Oxford
 OX2 8DR

On-site support will be provided, upon request. For current charges contact NAG. NAG will provide consultancy support, as requested on a chargeable basis.

The software is controlled by licence keys. New keys are issued by the NAG Response Centre support@nag.co.uk

There is a discussion list which has been set up on JISCmail called:

chest-nag

Anyone in the community may subscribe to this list (whether or not from a participating site).

To join the list send an email to:

jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk with the line(s):

join chest-nag

e.g. join chest-nag John Smith

Note that this list is for discussion and whilst NAG may subscribe to this list this is not a formal support route. Technical contacts at licensed sites are advised to join the list as they will be used by Chest to communicate information relating to the Agreement.

18. Pricing

Prices are as detailed in the "Pricing Table" and "Prices to Extend 3 Year Licence Table".

Notes:


 5Year Licences

3 Year Licences extended for a further 2 years

19. Payment Terms

On receipt of a completed Licence, or Modification to Schedule 4 and Implementation Form, Sites will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.


3&5 Year Licences
For each subsequent year, Sites signing up to the Agreement on or before 31 March 2005 will be invoiced on 1 February for each licence year, the final invoice to cover the period to 31 July 2008 or 2010 depending on licence period chosen. Sites signing up to the Agreement after 31 March 2005 will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement (invoice date: 1 May) the final invoice to cover the period to 31 July 2008 or 2010 depending on licence period chosen.


3 Year Licence Extended for Further 2 Years
For each subsequent year, Sites signing up to the Agreement on or before 31 March 2008 will be invoiced on 1 February for each  licence year, the final invoice to cover the period to 31 July 2010. Sites signing up to the Agreement after 31 March 2008 will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement (invoice date: 1 May) the final invoice to cover the period to 31 July 2010.

The annual fee will be pro-rated by six months for sites that become licensed (or if products are added to a site's licence) in the second half of an Agreement year.

Sites may, if they wish, pay a single charge (as detailed in the "Pricing Table") to cover a 3 year licence or a 5 year licence or as detailed in the "Prices to Extend 3 Year Licence Table" to cover a 2 year extension to a 3 year licence for the period to 31 July 2010.

All payments must be made to "Eduserv" within 30 calendar days of the date of invoice.

Note: You are advised that because of the requirement for Chest to collect monies due before the anniversary date two charges may fall initially into one academic accounting year.

20. Method of Delivery of Product

The master copies of media and Licensed Materials will be delivered to the Licensed Site by NAG when the Licence (Schedule 4) or Modification to Schedule 4 is signed by the Site and returned to Chest. See "How to order" below.

NAG also provides delivery of licence managed products via electronic download: http://www.nag.co.uk/downloads/index.asp

21. WWW Addresses

a) Agreement information and forms

b) Supplier home page:
www.nag.co.uk/

22. How to Order

(i) To join the new Agreement

ALL SITES ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:

*  Please note that if you wish to extend your 3 year licence for a further 2 years then you will need to complete a Modification Form.

These documents should be returned with an official purchase order to cover the full licence fees.

(ii) To add/remove product(s)/platforms to/from an existing licence

Where sites are adding products that DO NOT affect the charge banding that they are in, then a message to Chest will suffice.

Sites that are exchanging or deleting products/implementations, even if the charge banding is not affected, are required to complete the following form:

* Implementations Form - Please indicate which products/implementations are being added/deleted and sign the Termination Letter for the deleted products/implementations.

Sites that are adding, exchanging or deleting products/implementations which DO affect their licence fees, are required to complete the following forms:

* Modification to Schedule 4- 1 copy. (Also to be used to add/change Technical Contact details).

Sites licensing either of these products should complete the Modification to Schedule Form and the Implementation Order Form and return to Chest with an official purchase order.
You can return these forms, together with (if applicable) an official purchase order addressed to "Eduserv", to cover the licence fees, either by Post:

Chest/NAG Agreement
Queen Anne House
11 Charlotte Street
Bath
BA1 2NE


Or

You can scan and email the forms to: chesthelp@eduserv.org.uk

These will be processed by Chest and forwarded to NAG, who will deliver the product(s) ordered.

 
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