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Sun Studio software delivers a high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran developer toolchain for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux operating systems, including support for multicore x86- and SPARC-based systems. The toolchain includes parallelizing compilers, code-level and memory debuggers, performance and thread analysis tools, OpenMP support as well as optimized math libraries. With a next-generation NetBeans-based IDE, development of multicore applications has never been easier. Get started with Sun Studio 12 or Sun Studio Express 07/08.

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New Solaris 10 Applications Library Is Live on BigAdmin October 10, 2008
New Solaris 10 Applications Library Is Live on BigAdmin
Search for and download Solaris 10 applications by vendor or application name/description (for SPARC or x86/x64 platforms).

September 19, 2008
Debugging Multithreaded Programs
This article suggests ways of avoiding bugs in your code as well as strategies for finding these bugs using the dbx command-line debugger.

September 12, 2008
Using DTrace to Demystify Watchpoints in the Sun Studio dbx Debugger
This article educates users on how to use the watchpoint facility in the Sun Studio dbx debugger for both source-level and instruction-level debugging.

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Sun Studio Coding Tips Introducing Sun Studio Express 07/08
Sun's Ikroop Dhillon and Ruud Van Der Pas discuss support for OpenMP 3.0 APIs, the integration of ClusterTools (based on Open MPI), and support for performance analysis of MPI applications in this newest release of Sun Studio Express, which is based on NetBeans IDE 6.1. podcast
 
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Sun Studio Information Center
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Solaris Developer Introduction to Sun Studio
This course provides an overview of how to compile, edit, debug, and analyze performance with Sun Studio.
 
 

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