C and Fortran Development and Deployment Tools for Solaris 8, 9, and 10 Releases

Find out about developing, maintaining, and supporting a C or Fortran software product on the Solaris 8, 9, and 10 releases simultaneously, on one machine. (This tech tip was reprinted from the BigAdmin newsletter.)

Posted at 08:00AM Nov 17, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Sun Studio Blogging Contest Winner

In his blog entry, Sandeep Koranne, one of our contest winners, describes how Sun Studio 12 compilers are used to engineer a complex, innovative discrete geometry algorithmic application.

Posted at 03:17PM Oct 20, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

HPC Profiling with the Sun Studio Performance Tools

Sun Microsystems' Marty Itzkowitz and Yukon Maruyama describe how to use the Sun Studio Performance Tools to understand the performance issues in single-threaded, multi-threaded, OpenMP, and MPI applications, and the techniques used to profile them. This paper was originally presented at the Third Parallel Tools Workshop held in Dresden, Germany in September.

Posted at 04:37PM Oct 16, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Join Us at Oracle OpenWorld 2009

Meet key Sun Studio engineers in our booth in the Exhibition Hall and learn about the latest innovations in Sun Studio software. Hope to see you there!

Posted at 03:08PM Oct 09, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Tutorial: DTrace by Example

This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance.

Posted at 06:25PM Sep 28, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Video Tutorials: An Introduction to Parallel Computing

Ruud van der Pas discusses tuning for performance using Sun Studio tools, and the challenges brought on by today's new chip architectures in this seven-part video series.

Posted at 02:47PM Sep 18, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Now Available - Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Multi-Language Release

The Sun Studio 12 Update 1 release is now available for download in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and English.

Posted at 03:40PM Sep 17, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Enter the Sun Studio Blogging Contest Now

Blog about Sun Studio software for a chance to win $500. Hurry, the contest ends August 14.

Posted at 11:40AM Aug 10, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

HPC Software Workshop 2009 and Advanced Seminars

Join us at the conference September 7-10 in Regensburg, Germany. There will be an HPC Parallel Programming Seminar and many sessions in the Developer Tools track to help you learn more about developing and deploying HPC applications.

Posted at 11:39AM Aug 10, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

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.

Posted at 05:06PM Jun 23, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

OpenMP Source Code Examples Now Available

41 source code examples from the book, Using OpenMP, are now available as one free download. Each source file constitutes a full working program. Try them out and then discuss in the forum.

Posted at 01:16PM Apr 23, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Memory Profiling With MPI Analyzer

This note shows an example of how to distinguish between heavy-user program memory allocation versus memory allocations within the MPI implementation due to resource congestion.

Posted at 01:13PM Apr 23, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager

In this article, learn how to manipulate BEs for convenience and transparency; update software in a BE; clone, create, or delete BEs; and set a BE as default.

Posted at 05:59PM Apr 08, 2009 by CW, managing editor in OpenSolaris  | 

Now Available: The Developer's Edge

This book of selected blog posts and articles focuses on native language issues, improving performance, Solaris OS tools, and more. It is also available online.

Posted at 12:57PM Apr 03, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  | 

Sun Studio 12 Named Best Open-Source Development Tool

Russian PC World magazine, Mir PC, has published its list of the Best Products of 2008 and awarded Sun Studio 12 as the top open-source development tool. Read this blog post.

Posted at 12:54PM Apr 03, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |