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Volume 4, Number 22 -- June 12, 2007

Sun Adds Quad-Core X64 Chip Support into Studio 12 Compilers

Published: June 12, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As reported elsewhere in this newsletter, server maker Sun Microsystems has just launched its first products using quad-core processors, in this case Blade 6000 blade servers using Intel's "Clovertown" Xeon 5300 chips. And quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors are only a few weeks from being launched. So Sun has to get its compilers tweaked so they can make use of these extra cores in an efficient manner.

To that end, Sun this week announced that its Studio 12 compiler set for Solaris and Linux operating systems have been updated to make use of quad-core X64 processors. Prior releases of the Studio compilers already supported Sun's own eight-core, 32-thread "Niagara" Sparc T1 processors as well as its line of dual-core UltraSparc-IV and UltraSparc-IV+ chips and dual-core X64 chips from Intel and AMD.

The Studio 12 compiler set includes C, C++, and Fortran compilers that have been equipped with tools for static and dynamic memory debugging, application profiling, and multicore and multithreaded optimizations for applications created for Solaris and Linux. These multicore and multithreaded optimizations are going to be the key to the future of applications, which will be riding on processors with an ever-increasing number of processing cores and other co-processors on the chip.

Sun is providing a free copy of Studio 12 at http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio, which also includes the open source NetBeans integrated development environment. Studio 12 is also going to be included in a future release of Solaris Express Developer Edition. The Solaris Express program provides workstation and server implementations of beta Solaris code, derived from the OpenSolaris project, for companies to monkey around with as they preview future features in the Solaris platform.

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