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Sun Studio Express 11/08 Now Available

Monday Nov 17, 2008

The latest Sun Studio Express release with updated features and enhancements is now available for download. Sun Studio Software delivers a high-performance, optimizing C/C++/Fortran developer toolchain for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux OSs, including support for multicore x86- and SPARC-based systems. The toolchain includes parallelizing compilers, code-level and memory debuggers, and performance and thread analysis tools. With a NetBeans-based IDE developing parallel applications for the mutlicore era has never been easier! Sun Studio is supported on OpenSolaris 2008.05, Solaris 10 and Linux (RHEL 5/SuSe 10/Ubuntu 8.04/CentOS 5.1) Download a free unrestricted copy today! If you register your Sun Studio installation, you will also receive access to the following content: - Sample chapter from the book Solaris Application Programming by Darryl Gove titled, "Correctness and Debug" - Guide to selecting the best compiler options - Booklet on using Sun Studio to develop parallel applications For more information on this latest release of Sun Studio Express join Ikroop Dhillon, Product Marketing Manager for Sun Studio and Vijay Tatkar,Senior Engineering Manager in the Developer Tools Organization, both with Sun Microsystems, as they discuss the feature highlights of Sun Studio Express 11/08. Listen to the podcast.

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Building High-Performance, Parallel Applications for OpenSolaris and Linux

Monday Oct 27, 2008

The Sun Developer Network has just posted a webinar on "Building C/C++/Fortran applications on OpenSolaris and Linux using Sun Studio". This is a great resource to learn about multi-core development, heterogeneous OpenSolaris and Linux development and Linux compatibility issues.

Join the webinar to learn how:

  • Sun Studio Software addresses the 4 pillars of application development: performance, parallelism, productivity and platforms
  • Sun Studio Software helps you optimize code and increase application performance
  • To easily build parallel applications with Sun Studio
  • To increase productivity with a next-gen NetBeans based IDE
  • Sun Studio Software is the single source for heterogeneous OpenSolaris and Linux platforms
  • Building C/C++/Fortran applications on OpenSolaris and Linux using Sun Studio

The speaker is Ikroop Dhillon, Product Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems. The webinar is available on-demand October 27-31, 2008.

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