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.

OpenSolaris 2008.05 is Now Available
Take your idea from experiment to global deployment on a single platform in a familiar environment. Complete with free, built-in features, OpenSolaris can be deployed on nearly 1000 systems.

Using Sun Studio with the GCC Tool Chain
Sun Studio can interoperate with the GCC tool chain in different ways. This page discusses the different kinds of interoperability and what the caveats are.

Sun Studio Express - February 2008 Build
Sun Studio Express 2/08 sports an updated IDE (based on NetBeans IDE 6.0), Project D-Light, updated compilers and optimized code generation (e.g. SSSE3) as well as improved RTC support on x86-based platforms.

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.

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.

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