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47 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 ■ TALENT ■ CULTURE PLACE ■ HISTORY ■ SUPPORT ■ OPEN/INDUSTRY ORIENTATION ■ GLOBAL LINKS ■ RESEARCH Why Manchester? Chart illustrates the factors that influenced the Numerical Algorithms Group While the idea of opening an office in Manchester had been discussed for some time because of the strengthening collaborations, it actually came about in 2008 through the developments in the company in the support of high performance computing (HPC). For nearly six years NAG has provided support to HECTOR, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) the UK's high performance computing service. When the contract was awarded the core of the HPC team in NAG was formed by hiring specialists from the University. Working for the company blends practical industrial experience with a great deal of academic rigour and is an attractive career path for those who wish to combine the two. The nature of the work and the closeness of collaboration enable advances in research which can be implemented before they are published. This means that researchers gain direct experience of the full commercial cycle. www.nag.co.uk KTPs bring global experts to the city Collaborations with Manchester have included two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) which came about through the encouragement of the University's industrial liaison staff. These were funded through the University's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Knowledge Transfer Account – the largest awarded in the programme by that council. Collaborations also include sponsored PhDs and the award of two prizes for MSc students in the School of Mathematics. Company staff act as visiting lecturers at the University and provide insights on industrial problems. One of the KTPs which the company has with the University supports a visiting professor from the University of Tennessee, who is the holder of the University's Turing fellowship and a globally acknowledged expert in high performance and parallel computing, to work with NAG.