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Thursday November 13, 2008

Sun Studio Express 11/08 is now available
Sun Studio Express 11/08 is now available for Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux (RHEL and SuSE). We are looking for you to preview the new features and give us feedback. Listening to this feedback is a prime motivation for exposing these features, so please be sure to sign in and use the Sun Studio Forums to give us your comments, suggestions, (gripes?), etc

The new release is loaded with features. Some of the big bullets are:

C, C++ compiler, assembler features:

Support for Nehalem (Intel Xeon) and Shanghai (AMD) processors: in particular, SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 features
World Record numbers on Intel Xeon Penryn as well as new SPARC64-VII based systems that I have already outlined previously here(Intel) and here(SPARC).
Optimization enhancements for SPARC64 VI, VII, UltraSPARC IV+ and Niagara-2 chips (aka UltraSPARC T2), bringing several World Record Benchmarks on these new machines

OpenMP3.0 API (finishing off the remaining features) support in C, C++, Fortran compilers
Enhanced performance analysis/profiling of MPI applications
Support for Sun HPC ClusterTools 8, which supports OpenMPI 1.3 and allows creation (and tuning) of MPI applications that run on high performance clusters
A NEW standalone debugger: dbxtool
Sun Performance Library: ZGEMM improvements for SPARC64-VI and SPARC64-VII
Remote Development in IDE and dbxtool
Packaging: supports tar, zip, SVR4, RPM, Debian packages; other packaging systems may be added using pluggable architecture
NetBeans 6.5 based IDE
- Improved project import: new provider based on build log analysis
- Static Call Graph
- Dramatically improved Code Assistance accuracy (97%+ on average project)
- Syntax Error Highlighting
- Unused variables highligting
- Unresolved identifiers highlighting (experimental, turned off by default)
Project D-light is a plugin for the Sun Studio 12 IDE that offers a variety of instrumentation that takes advantage of the Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) debugging and performance analysis functionality in the Solaris OS.
DTrace GUI Plugin is a graphical user interface (GUI) for running DTrace scripts
Platforms:

Officially supported now on OpenSolaris 2008.05 and OpenSolaris 2008.11

Available on newer Linuxes: RHEL5, SuSE10^?, Ubuntu 8.10 and Solaris 10 update 5 (or newer)

You can find the Express Readme here.
For more detail on these features, see the Express Details wiki pages. I will deepdive into details of the features here in subsequent blogs.
Posted by tatkar ( Nov 13 2008, 11:43:52 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]

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