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

July 01, 2008
OSDevCon 2008: OpenSolaris and Sun Studio
At the recent OpenSolaris Developer Conference, Sun Studio Linux Architect Roman Shaposhnik highlighted OpenSolaris with Sun Studio as the ultimate development platform. Watch this video and read a blog from Intel's David Stewart for his take on the session.

July 01, 2008
IDE Survey: Sun Studio Gets High Marks
In Evans Data Corp.'s survey of more than 1,200 developers to rate various IDE features and attributes, Sun Studio ranked number one in "performance of resulting applications" and number four overall in user satisfaction (registration required).

May 19, 2008
Using and Redistributing Sun Studio Libraries in an Application
Sun Studio software provides redistributable libraries that can be incorporated into an application to provide functionality and reduce development time. This article contains best practices for redistributing these libraries and for maintaining applications that depend on them.

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.