What's New  

November 10, 2009
Sun Studio Blogging Contest Winner
Ankur Saxena, one of our contest winners, lists his top five reasons for using Sun Studio 12.

November 10, 2009
Sun Studio at SC09
SC09, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is November 14-20 in Portland, OR. Drop by the Sun booth to meet key engineers and learn about the latest innovations in Sun Studio software.

October 27, 2009
Sun Studio Blogging Contest Winner
One of our contest winners, Pete Eby, took Sun Studio 12 for a test drive on both Solaris 10 and Linux platforms. Read about his experience in his winning blog entry.

Training

Support

Spotlight

Sun System Software Stacks on BigAdmin
Find out which software is preinstalled and supported on Sun's SPARC servers (e.g., which releases of Solaris, Sun Studio, Sun Cluster, and Sun Java Enterprise System).

Sun Studio Fortran Futures Survey
The Sun Studio Fortran team would love your input and suggestions about Sun Studio Fortran use and future development. Please help!

Screencasts

Check out these screencasts to learn more about the new features in Sun Studio 12 Update 1.

• DLight: Utilize and Visualize the Power of DTrace Technology
  Maria Tishkova demonstrates runtime profiling using DLight, which unifies application and system profiling using DTrace technology on Solaris platforms.


• Sun Studio Software: Developing OpenMP 3.0 Applications
  Bin Fan demonstrates building, debugging and profiling an OpenMP 3.0 application, which utilizes OpenMP 3.0 tasking.


• Performance Analyzer: MPI Application Profiling
  Yukon Maruyama demonstrates profiling of distributed MPI applications.


• Thread Analyzer: Detecting Multithreaded Programming Errors
  Xi Qian demonstrates how to detect data races and deadlocks in multithreaded applications.

Related Software

Documentation

Check out these books:

The Developer's Edge

Solaris Application Programming