Immediate availability of the Linux version of SunTM Studio 9 development tools for C, C++ and Fortran was announced by Sun at the LinuxWorld Conference held in San Francisco.

Also available for the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun Studio 9 provides a comprehensive, productive environment for developing scalable 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the latest Sun UltraSPARCR IV, Intel Xeon and AMD-based systems.

For the Linux environment, this software offers NetBeansTM-based IDE with editor of choice (Vim, XEmacs, built-in); distributed make (dmake); GUI debugger (dbx) for GCC binaries; performance tools and X-Designer GUI Builder.

Key Features and Benefits

• Improved SPARCR Performance: Usage of optimizations with -O in Sun Studio 9 can improve applications by up to 40 percent over Sun Studio 8.

• Improved Xeon and AMD Performance: Runtime performance for applications generated for the Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) is now up to 60 percent faster. SSE and SSE2 optimizations are available for Pentium-compatible Intel and AMD chips.

• New Xeon and AMD High Performance Features: Fortran 90/95 and the Sun Performance LibraryTM are now available for the Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) making it easy to deploy high performance applications on IA 32 and AMD 32-based systems.

• Simplified Debugging: Graphical user interface allows for easy access to advanced debugging features. Set breakpoints, examine variables and navigate the call stack through debugger menus and buttons. Reduce turnaround time for fixes and achieve greater debugging productivity with "Fix and Continue." Debug optimized and parallelized code as well as mixed languages (C, C++, Fortran, and Java).

• Performance Analysis Tools: Help assess the performance of a program, identify potential performance problems and identify the section of the code where problems may be occurring.

• Native Connector Tool: Wraps C and C++ functions and data objects, and exposes them as JavaTM classes, enabling the deployment of C/C++ code as services.

• Multi-threaded Applications: Capability of building applications with Sun Studio 9 Open MP 2.0 support for C, C++ and Fortran code (SPARC platform only)

• 64-Bit Application Development: With 64-bit technology, applications are capable of solving larger, more complex problems (SPARC platform only)

The Sun Studio 9 product includes software for Solaris OS, both the SPARC and x86 platforms, along with software for the Linux OS. Earlier versions of the software such as Forte 6 Update 2, SunTM ONE Studio 7 Enterprise Edition and SunTM Studio 8, are easily upgradable to Sun Studio 9 since it is fully compatible with all of these former releases.

System requirements entail 512 MB of memory, 1 GB of swap space; disk space of 2 GB, 1.6 GB Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) and/or .8 GB Linux. The software is supported by Solaris 10, 9 and 8 OS (SPARC and x86 platforms); Sun JavaTM Desktop System, 2003; SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. [...read more...]

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