diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/magma/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/magma/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21805092c76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/magma/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, gfortran, cudatoolkit, libpthreadstubs, liblapack }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+let version = "2.0.2";
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "magma-${version}";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projectsfiles/magma/downloads/magma-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0w3z6k1npfh0d3r8kpw873f1m7lny29sz2bvvfxzk596d4h083lk";
+    name = "magma-${version}.tar.gz";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ gfortran cudatoolkit libpthreadstubs liblapack cmake ];
+
+  doCheck = false;
+  #checkTarget = "tests";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding=true;
+
+  # MAGMA's default CMake setup does not care about installation. So we copy files directly.
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    mkdir -p $out/include
+    mkdir -p $out/lib
+    mkdir -p $out/lib/pkgconfig
+    cp -a ../include/*.h $out/include
+    #cp -a sparse-iter/include/*.h $out/include
+    cp -a lib/*.a $out/lib
+    cat ../lib/pkgconfig/magma.pc.in                   | \
+    sed -e s:@INSTALL_PREFIX@:"$out":          | \
+    sed -e s:@CFLAGS@:"-I$out/include":    | \
+    sed -e s:@LIBS@:"-L$out/lib -lmagma -lmagma_sparse": | \
+    sed -e s:@MAGMA_REQUIRED@::                       \
+        > $out/lib/pkgconfig/magma.pc
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    homepage = "http://icl.cs.utk.edu/magma/index.html";
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ianwookim ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3404dc5a1ff..a592d93d838 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15925,6 +15925,8 @@ in
 
   openspecfun = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/openspecfun {};
 
+  magma = callPackage ../development/libraries/science/math/magma { };  
+
   mathematica = callPackage ../applications/science/math/mathematica { };
   mathematica9 = callPackage ../applications/science/math/mathematica/9.nix { };