Sun Studio Compilers and Tools

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 series.

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.

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

Download Sun Studio 12 Update 1 and check out the new features. Post a blog describing your experience and you could win up to $500.
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Meet the Sun Studio product team at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, June 23-26. Join Ikroop Dhillon at the Sun's Developer Tools for the HPC Stack session and Liang Chen for his session, MCFX: A New Parallel Programming Framework. See the ISC'09 Agenda.

How does the GNU C Compiler, GCC, perform on Intel's Nehalem processor compared to the Sun Studio compiler? Learn the results in this blog.

The Sun Studio Fortran team would love your input and suggestions about Sun Studio Fortran use and future development. Please help!

Meet key engineers in our booth in the expo area and attend these Sun Studio sessions: Measuring Performance with Sun Studio Tools and Building C/C++ Fortran Applications on the OpenSolaris Operating System and Linux. Also, check out this panel discussion: Moving Forward: High-Performance Application Development in a Multicore World.

Download OpenSolaris 2009.06, the latest release of the OpenSolaris operating system, a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers.

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.