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Wednesday July 30, 2008
Sun Studio Express 7/08 is now available on Solaris and Linux
Sun
Studio Express 7/08 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 SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 features
- Instruction selection and performance enhancements for AMD's Barcelona and Intel's Penryn and upcoming Nehalem chips
- 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 support in C, C++, Fortran compilers
- MPI Profiler
- Performance analyzer enhancements
- 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
- NB6.1 based Sun Studio IDE
- RTC on Linux for memory access, leaks and usage
- Sun Performance Library improvements, geared towards new (micro-)architectures
For more detail on these features, see the Express Details wiki pages. I will also highlight features in each of these topics in subsequent blogs.
Additional note:
Several others have blogged about it as well. Heres a few that you might want to visit to get other aspects of this release:
On the Record: http://blogs.sun.com/ontherecord/entry/sun_studio_express_07_08
Richard Friedman :http://blogs.sun.com/rchrd
OpenMP: http://openmp.org/
HPC at Sun: http://hpc.sun.com/
Yuan Lin here: http://blogs.sun.com/yuanlin
Josh Simons: http://blogs.sun.com/simons/category/HPC
Kuldip Oberoi here: http://koberoi.com/
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There was a temporary issue yesterday with getting the wrong page on the download site, which in turn took you to the wrong download (Feb 2008 instead of July 2008). This server side issue, which was intermittent and appeared to be non-deterministic to users, was resolved as soon as we knew about it.
If you experienced this yesterday, you might want to try again now.
Thanx!
Posted by Vijay Tatkar on July 31, 2008 at 08:25 AM PDT #