Sun Studio 12 ( For more : http://drupalgapps.techbracket.net/node/11

1. What is Sun Studio ?

1.1. Advanced Tooling for C, C++ and Fortran Developers : Full fledge IDE to develop future Application on C / C++ and Fortran.

1.2. Sun Studio 12 includes the following key components: * Parallelizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers * Next-generation IDE based on NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 * Code-level debugger * Memory debugger * Application profiling * OpenMP support * Optimized libraries, including Sun Performance Library * Tools for multithreaded development

2. Update 1 , What new ?

2.1. Optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers . sun Benchmarks

2.2. DLight

2.3. Full OpenMP 3.0 compiler, debugger and tools support

2.4. dbxTool

2.5. Performance analysis of MPI application

2.6. improved code completion, error highlighting, semantic highlighting, call graph, memory window, packaging of application as tar files, zip files, SVR4 packages, RPMs, or Debian packages, and much more.

2.7. support for the latest OpenMP 3.0 specification;

3. Learning Resources

3.1. Books

3.1.1. Solaris Application Programming, 1/e

3.1.2. The Developer's Edge

3.2. Videos, Webcast, Webinars and more

3.3. Offical Sun Support

3.4. Complete Documenation

3.5. Online Training and Courses

3.6. Sun Studio Wiki

3.7. Sun studio Forums

3.8. Sun Studio Technical Articles Collection

3.9. FAQs

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5. Use Sun Studio 12 compilers and tools . Why ?

5.1. To capitalize on multicore hardware, multithreaded software

5.1.1. Use SUN HPC Cluster toos

5.1.2. Full OpenMP 3.0 compiler, debugger and tools support

5.1.3. Performance analysis of MPI applications

5.2. To capitalize on diverse open-source Technologies offered by sun. http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunStudio/Using+Sun+Studio+for+open+source+apps

6. Enhance your Arsenal

6.1. Plugins & Addons

6.2. Cool Tools

7. Community matters

7.1. HPC Software Workshop 2009 and Advanced Seminars

7.2. Numerous Sun Studio community Blogs

7.3. Community Submissions For information on submitting content, see the SDN Share Program. Browse a wide range of reader-submitted articles

8. Platform, Requirements

8.1. Runs only Solaris, Linux For those who need a C/C++ IDE on Windows, check out the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack , http://www.netbeans.org/products/cplusplus/ Also Sun Virtual Box can also be used to run Opensolaris-based Sun studio on Windows .

8.2. JDK 5 Update 16 or higher

8.3. For more see The SUPPORT MATRIX