Sun Studio 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

September 05, 2008
Updated: Getting The Best AMD64 Performance With Sun Studio Compilers
This article has been updated with essential information for Sun Studio 12. Read the note at the top of the article.

September 05, 2008
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 Now Available for Solaris and Linux
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 software is an optimized and scalable MPI library and parallel job launcher, which is based on the open-source Open MPI project. It supports Sun Studio compilers and tools and GNU/gcc toolchains on both Solaris and Linux. Learn more details and download it today.

August 29, 2008
Why Use Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools?
This article provides a features overview of Sun Studio 12 software and addresses how it allows developers to capitalize on multicore hardware, multithreaded software, and diverse open-source technology offerings.

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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.