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Sun Studio 12 Update 1, the latest production release of Sun Studio Compilers and Tools, is now available for download:

http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/

Supported on Solaris 10, OpenSolaris (2008. 11 and 2009.06) and the leading Linux distributions (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5), feature highlights since Sun Studio 12 include:

* C, C++ and Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest UltraSPARC and SPARC64-based architectures

* C, C++ and Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest x86 architectures from Intel and AMD including SSSE3, SSSE4a, SSe4.1, SSE4.2 compiler intrinsics support

* Compiler, debugger, and profiling support for OpenMP 3.0

* Profiling of distributed MPI-based applications

* DLight - New tool for unified application and system profiling using Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology on Solaris platforms

* dbxTool - New stand-alone graphical debugger

* Highly tuned and parallelized scientific libraries, including ScaLAPACK

* Update IDE based on NetBeans 6.5.1 software

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Features page: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/features/index.jsp

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Press Release: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-06/sunflash.20090623.1.xml

Sun Studio Blogging Contest: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/community/campaigns/blogcontest_062009/welcome.jsp

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Sun Studio Express 3/09, the official build used for the Sun Studio 12

Update 1 Early Access Program, is now available for download:

http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/index.jsp

The Sun Studio Early Access build is available on Solaris, OpenSolaris

and the latest Linux distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux

Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu). Feature highlights since the Sun Studio 12

release include:

    * C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest x86

architectures from Intel and AMD including SSSE3, SSSE4a, SSe4.1, SSE4.2

compiler intrinsics support

    * C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest UltraSPARC

and SPARC64-based architectures

    * DLight - New tool to utilize and visualize the power of Solaris

Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology

    * dbxTool - New stand-alone GUI debugger

    * Full OpenMP 3.0 compilers and tools support

    * MPI performance analysis in the Performance Analyzer

    * NetBeans IDE 6.5 including new remote development features

These new features are described in the readme and wiki pages:

Readme: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/ssx/express_March2009.html

Wiki pages: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunStudio/Sun+Studio+Express+March+2009+Release

The Early Access program gives developers a chance to evaluate new

capabilities of Sun Studio software, provide their feedback to the

product team and influence future product releases.  Please encourage

your customer's participation in this program so that we can gather

valuable feedback to assess the readiness of our release.

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Early Access Program:

http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/overview/earlyaccess/index.jsp

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