Sun Announces Update To Studio Compilers & Tools Software

Sun Microsystems has announced that Sun Studio 12 Update 1, a major upgrade to its software compiler and tools technology, is freely available for download at http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio. Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), OpenSolaris, the next generation of the Solaris OS, and Linux platforms, including parallelising compilers, debuggers, advanced thread and performance analysis tools, and highly-tuned libraries that help simplify the creation of applications and provide an optimised development environment for the latest multi-core x86 and SPARC-based systems.

“Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software has not only significant updates that help developers take applications to the next level of performance, but also offers tooling that allows developers to more easily create parallel and concurrent software applications on today’s and tomorrow’s platforms,” said Jim McHugh, vice president, Datacenter Software Marketing, Sun Microsystems.

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New Features Deliver Application Performance

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software delivers optimised compilers that allow developers to maximise application performance on the newest SPARC, Intel x86 and AMD x86-based systems. Specifically geared towards C, C++ and Fortran developers, Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software helps developers reduce development timelines with DLight, a new visual profiling tool based on Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology in the Solaris OS.

In addition, new parallel features help simplify the development of multi-threaded and distributed applications. With enhanced and newly added standard routines, HPC, financial, and other compute-intensive applications will benefit from a performance boost that will help users maximise their hardware investments.

Simplified Development of Parallel and Concurrent Applications

Optimised for Solaris platforms, Sun Studio 12 Update 1 supports parallel development with features that help developers debug multi-threaded code, isolate common thread issues, and profile thread execution for performance problems. The updated software also offers support for the OpenMP 3.0 API specification, including the new tasking model.

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 improves developer productivity with an updated integrated development environment (IDE) and delivers a new standalone GUI debugger, called dbxTool. This code-level debugger includes functionality that identifies memory issues, such as leaks, access errors, and usage. In addition to profiling shared memory applications, Sun Studio 12 Update 1 now adds profiling functionality for distributed MPI-based applications based on a wide variety of MPI runtimes, including Sun HPC ClusterTools software.