Sun Studio C, C++ and Fortran Compilers and Tools

Sun Studio software provides compilers and tools for C, C++, and Fortran development on Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux platforms, with support of multicore x86- and SPARC-based systems. » Download

What's New

June 22, 2009
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 - Now Available!
This latest production release includes improved binary application performance, full OpenMP 3.0 support, profiling of distributed MPI applications, unified application and system profiling using Solaris DTrace technology (DLight), a new standalone graphical debugger (dbxTool) and much more! Download your free, unrestricted copy today.

June 22, 2009
Get Sun Studio 12 Update 1 and Blog for a Chance to Win Big
Download Sun Studio 12 Update 1 and check out the new features. Post a blog describing your experience and you could win up to $500. Download now.

June 16, 2009
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Launching at ISC Next Week!
Meet the Sun Studio product team at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, June 23-26. Join Ikroop Dhillon at the Sun's Developer Tools for the HPC Stack session and Liang Chen for his session, MCFX: A New Parallel Programming Framework. See the ISC'09 Agenda.

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Community

Read the latest blogs from frequent Sun Studio bloggers, and subscribe to the RSS feed.

Darryl Gove ' s blog - Introduction to parallel programming - Jul 01, 2009
Three new important Sun Developer Tools update releases: Sun Studio, NetBeans and Clustertools - Jun 29, 2009
Darryl Gove ' s blog - mtmalloc vs umem - Jun 26, 2009
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Sun Studio Forums
Visit these forums to post and answer questions and find additional resources:
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Sun Studio Wiki
Check out the Sun Studio Wiki, home to the Sun Studio FAQ and other resources, including the latest Sun Studio Express wiki pages.

Training

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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Spotlight

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.

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Related Software

Sun HPC ClusterTools software is an integrated toolkit that works with Sun Studio compilers and the Performance Analyzer that allows developers to tune Message-passing Interface (MPI) applications.

Cool Tools for Sun Studio work together to support the stages of porting, building, tuning, and debugging an application on SPARC systems.

Documentation

Sun Studio Documentation
Find links to documentation for Sun Studio software, including tutorials, installation guides, release notes, readmes, man pages, and more.

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Check out these books:

The Developer's Edge

Solaris Application Programming

Support

Sun Studio Support Services
Sun offers various fee-based, tiered support levels along with free web and community support.