Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran Compilers and Tools

Sun Studio software delivers high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including the latest multi-core systems.

What's New

August 18, 2008
Sun Studio at Intel Developer Forum (IDF), August 19-21, Moscone Center, San Francisco
Stop by the Sun Studio booth, talk to engineers, and attend the Chalk Talk titled, Multi-threaded Development on OpenSolaris and Linux Using Sun Studio (August 19, 9:45 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. PDT), to learn how Sun Studio allows you to fully unlock the potential of Intel multicore architecture.

August 15, 2008
Using DTrace with Sun Studio Tools to Understand, Analyze, Debug, and Enhance Complex Applications
This article describes the DTrace utility and its architecture and shows how different tools can be used to fix software deficiencies and performance problems.

August 08, 2008
DTrace Output Visualization With NetBeans DTrace GUI Plugin
This new release includes Chime, a graphical tool for visualizing DTrace aggregations. Utilize the included DTrace scripts to optimize Web Stack and native applications.

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Benchmarks

World Record Performance
The Sun Fire X2100 M2 server, equipped with next-generation AMD Opteron Model 1218 Series processors, demonstrated outstanding performance on the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, including a World Record floating point throughput result for all single socket x86 systems.

Spotlight

Sun Studio Coding Tips
Who couldn't use a tip? Check out these coding tips for Sun Studio Software on AMD64 technology.

Using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio 12
Discover how to use Sun Studio to build Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB), an open-source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs.

New Videos

Scott Smith of Intel speaks with Sun's Deepankar Bairagi and Intel's John McHugh about the TBB announcement
John McHugh sits down with Deepankar Bairagi to talk about the advantages of adding TBB to Sun Studio
Deepankar discusses the benefits of using TBB and shows how to access it from within Sun Studio.

Optimal Sun Studio compiler options for MySQL
This blog entry describes the changes that were made to improve MySQL performance using Sun Studio in SXDE 01/08. Sun Studio was used to compile MySQL on both Solaris SPARC and Solaris AMD64 platform.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Overview
Sun's solutions are designed to simplify the complex world of HPC. Join the Sun HPC Community Portal.

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Information Products Group (IPG)

has a new doc information center that points to all the manuals, release notes, readmes, man pages, etc.