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
