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Monday June 29, 2009

Three new important Sun Developer Tools update releases: Sun Studio, NetBeans and Clustertools
In the past week, Sun has announced availability of new releases and updates to three of the most interesting Developer tools:

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 is the latest production release of Sun Studio Compilers and Tools. Among the shiny new features are:

C, C++, Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest UltraSPARC and SPARC64-based architectures and support for latest Intel and AMD chips, including SSE3, SSE4a, SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 instructions
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
Updated IDE based on NetBeans 6.5.1 software

Look here for more information: http://developers.sun.com as well as the Studio website: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio

Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 offers an integrated toolkit with a comprehensive set of capabilities for parallel computing that allows developers to create and tune MPI applications that run on high-performance clusters. You get MPI libraries based on Open MPI 1.3.3 standard and ORTE parallel job launcher. It also includes support for Infiniband, shared memory, 10 GbE and Myrinet MX support along with plug-in for Sun Grid Engine, support for third party parallel debuggers (TotalView and Allinea DDT) and is integrated with Sun Studio Analyzer. You can find more information on this release (including Download, Documentation) for Solaris 10, OpenSolaris (both SPARC and x86), and Linuxes (RHEL5, SLES10 and CentOS 5) here: http://www.sun.com/software/products/clustertools

NetBeans 6.7 has shipped. The primary focus of this release was connectivity: helping developers connect to the latest technologies and to each other. NetBeans 6.7 now offers: