Sun Studio Compilers and Tools

Updated: Getting The Best AMD64 Performance With Sun Studio Compilers

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:00:00 PST

This article has been updated with essential information for Sun Studio 12. Read the note at the top of the article.

Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 Now Available for Solaris and Linux

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

Why Use Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

Podcast: Introducing Sun Studio Express 07/08

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

Sun's Ikroop Dhillon and Ruud Van Der Pas discuss support for OpenMP 3.0 APIs, the integration of ClusterTools (based on Open MPI), and support for performance analysis of MPI applications in this newest release of Sun Studio Express, which is based on NetBeans IDE 6.1.

AMD64 Instruction-Level Debugging With dbx

Mon, 22 Aug 2008 12:00:00 PST

This article details how to use the dbx debugger efficiently to display the contents of memory at specified addresses, and how to display machine instructions.

Using DTrace with Sun Studio Tools to Understand, Analyze, Debug, and Enhance Complex Applications

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

This article describes the DTrace utility and its architecture and shows how different tools can be used to fix software deficiencies and performance problems.

DTrace Output Visualization With NetBeans DTrace GUI Plugin

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:00:00 PST

This new release includes Chime, a graphical tool for visualizing DTrace aggregations. Utilize the included DTrace scripts to optimize Web Stack and native applications.

Sun Studio Express 07.08 - Now Available!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST

This express release includes support for OpenMP 3.0 APIs, integration of ClusterTools (based on Open MPI), and support for performance analysis of MPI applications. Download and start developing for the multi-core era today.

Sun Studio dbx Debugger

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST

Easily debug multithreaded applications with complete control of the dynamic execution in any program. Check out the advanced debugging features in dbx that set it apart from the rest.

Accelerate Application Builds With Dmake

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST

Sun Studio's dmake utility can accelerate complex application builds by building components in parallel. Learn how to configure a distributed build environment and get guidelines on makefile customization.

Twitter: Sun Studio

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST

Already using Twitter? Follow Sun Studio to get updates and insights from the product team.

Beyond LAMP: SAMP... LGPJ... LAMJ...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST

LAMP: It's not just for Linux any more! Develop using your OS, language, app server, database, and IDE of choice.

OSDevCon 2008: OpenSolaris and Sun Studio

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PST

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.

IDE Survey: Sun Studio Gets High Marks

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PST

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).

Using and Redistributing Sun Studio Libraries in an Application

Mon, 19 May 2008 12:00:00 PST

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.

Using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio 12

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

OpenSolaris 2008.05 is Now Available

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:00:00 PST

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

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

Optimal Sun Studio compiler options for MySQL

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

Debugging the JVM Using dbx

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:00:00 PST

See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system.

Sun Studio Express - February 2008 Build

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:00:00 PST

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.

Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 Now Available!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:00:00 PST

This Solaris release, built from the open source OpenSolaris code, includes the latest version of NetBeans, an integrated web application stack and ClusterTools to help you create Solaris, Java and Web 2.0 applications. Learn more, download, or have a DVD.

New Solaris Application Programming Book!

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:00:00 PST

This brand new tome is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running on the Solaris operating system. It covers the fundamentals of system performance, using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, and shows you how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications. It's available on Safari Online and Sun Books.

Tocarema Powers Up

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:00:00 PST

For its automated trading platform, startup TBricks (formerly Tocarema) had an impressive list of requirements for its C/C++ toolchain. They turned to Sun Microsystems and its Sun Studio 12 software. See how they did it!

Project D-Light Tutorial

The Project D-Light plug-in for the Sun Studio 12 IDE helps you use the DTrace debugging and performance analysis functionality in the Solaris OS.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Overview

Sun's solutions are designed to simplify the complex world of HPC. Join the Sun HPC Community Portal.

Multicore Development: Untangle your Threads using Sun Studio

Exploit the multiple cores in your machine using the Sun Studio software. Find out how Sun Studio compilers allow you to parallelize your application, detect data races and potential deadlocks, and analyze the performance of your application.

NetBeans DTrace GUI Plugin Now Available!

The NetBeans DTrace GUI plugin runs DTrace scripts from the GUI, even those that are embedded in shell scripts. It can be easily extended and customized and installs into the Sun Studio 12 IDE, NetBeans IDE 5.5, NetBeans IDE 5.5.1, and NetBeans IDE 6.0.

Using Sun Studio 12 on UltraSPARC T1- and T2-based Systems

The latest T2 Sun Fire Servers with CoolThreads Technology have up to 8 cores and 64 threads. With immense throughput performance, they not only run more separate applications simultaneously, they provide increased scalability for multi-threaded applications.

Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07

This Solaris release, built from OpenSolaris code, includes the latest tools, technologies, and platforms to create Java applications on Solaris. Learn more, download, or have a DVD mailed to you.

Develop and Accelerate Your Solaris and Linux Applications with Sun Studio Software

How can you reduce your project schedule, create higher quality applications, and accelerate your applications up to 80%? Join Vijay Tatkar as he discusses how the Sun Studio 12 software can simplify your development.

Calculating Processor Utilisation From the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 Performance Counters

Use the performance counters for the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 processors to estimate core load and find potential areas for performance improvement.

Locating Memory Access Errors With Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool

The Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool detects and reports common memory access errors such as accessing uninitialized memory, writing past the end of an array, or accessing memory after it has been freed.

Using DTrace to Demystify Watchpoints in the Sun Studio dbx Debugger

The DTrace facility enables you to monitor the internal states of the Solaris kernel in ways you could not have before. A simple D script, as shown in this article, can reveal how the Solaris kernel interacts with applications during execution.

12 on 12 Questions Submitted by Developers

Read the top twelve questions on Sun Studio 12 that developers asked and how Sun's experts answered them in this Q and A.

New Language Extensions in the Sun Studio 12 C Compiler

This article gives an overview of the C-language extensions (part of the GNU C-implementation) introduced in the Sun Studio 12 C compiler. Although these extensions are not part of the latest ISO C99 standard, they are supported by the popular gcc compilers.

New - Sun Studio 12 Released!

The time has arrived for today's developers! Parallel Application Development, Performance, Platforms, Productivity, it's all here. Download Sun Studio 12 now.

New! Sun Studio Express - June 2007

Get an early look at next Sun Studio software technologies. Using an intuitive drag and drop interface, Project D-Light makes sophisticated application and system profiling accessible. It provides an extensible library of instruments that represent the latest advances of profiling technology, including dynamic tracing (DTrace).

Performance Tuning With Sun Studio Compilers and Inline Assembly Language

Here are examples of using a compiler flag or inline assembly language with Sun Studio compilers to increase the performance of C, C++, and Fortran programs.

Using F95 Interfaces to Customize Access to the Sun Performance Library

When porting Fortran source, the Fortran 95 generic interface can be used to allow the source code to remain virtually unchanged and yet facilitate the use of the ILP-32, LP-64, and ILP-64 programming models.

Sun Studio Express 4 - February 2007 Build

Download a preview of the next Sun Studio software release and try it out. The Express program now offers builds of Sun Studio software releases under development for download. Get an early look at new Sun Studio software technologies. New in the February 2007 build are a brand new installer with server/client capability, enhancements to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and updated Sun Studio compilers that now generate DWARF symbolic information.

An OpenMP Runtime API for Profiling

This paper describes a runtime API for use in profiling OpenMP applications. The API is designed to provide data that enables performance tools to present measurements in the user-model of OpenMP programming. The API was primarily designed to support statistical sampling of callstacks, but it also contains extensions to support tracing.

Solaris Express, Developer Edition is now Available

This new OpenSolaris-based distribution provides an integrated environment for the development of Solaris, Java, and MP-based applications. Simplified installation experience is tuned for multiboot configuration on common laptop and desktop systems.

Profiling WebSphere Application Servers with Sun Studio Performance Tools

This article describes how to profile an IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) runtime environment with the Sun Studio Performance Analysis Tools, Collector and Analyzer.

Introducing OpenMP: A Portable, Parallel Programming API for Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Sun Studio compilers (C/C++/Fortran 95) support OpenMP parallelization natively. OpenMP is an emerging standard model for parallel programming in a shared memory environment that provides pragmas (directives), runtime routines, and environment variables for programmers to easily parallelize their code. This article provides a brief introduction to OpenMP and is of particular interest to programmers new to parallel programming methods in Fortran, C, or C++.