The July 2008 Sun Studio Express ReleaseDetails of the New Features
Known Problems and WorkaroundsSee the OpenMP 3.0The new features of the OpenMP 3.0 specifications now implemented in the Sun Studio compilers are detailed on the Performance Analyzer with MPI programsSee the New Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting ToolsThe Simple Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT)Documentation for SPOT:
In this Express release, the spot command is available only for the Solaris OS on SPARC platforms. Discover - Memory Access Error ToolDocumentation for Discover:
NOTE: Discover in this Express release does not have Lite mode ("-l" flag)implemented. Discover is only available on Solaris OS on SPARC platforms for Express. BIT - Binary Improvement ToolBIT provides a set of tools for improving the performance of application binaries. Documentation:
NOTE: The ‑xbinopt=prepare option is not required if compilation is done using this Studio Express or GCCFSS 4.2.0 with the following operating systems: Solaris 10 Update 5; Solaris 10 with Patch 127111-07 installed; Solaris 11 build 70 or later. In this Express release, bit is only available for the Solaris OS on SPARC platforms. ATS - Automatic Tuning and Troubleshooting SystemDocumentation for ATS:
In this Express release, ats is available for the Solaris OS on SPARC and x86/x64 platforms. |
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Aug 13, 2008
richard.friedman.at.sun says:
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Aug 14, 2008
VTatkar says:
Richard, it would be useful to add a section on how to make this work on OpenSol...Richard, it would be useful to add a section on how to make this work on OpenSolaris 2008.05.
Heres a short how-to:
OpenSolaris 2008.05 installed off a LiveCD doesnt contain SunStudio or the packages needed to make Studio run. So here are two ways to get it working there:
[This will install the Sun Studio Express that originally went with it *PLUS* all the Solaris packages its dependent on, eg. SUNWhea and SUNWtoo, which are both required]
Now you can tar off the new SunStudio tarball at whatever location you want. Make sure you have the newer SunStudio install in your $PATH.
plus all the dependencies are there in one place.
You get two Sun Studios (even better than having one
If you dont want an extra Sun Studio lying around, you can just
#pkg install SUNWhea SUNWtoo
I think that should cover the dependencies, but I could be mistaken
Aug 14, 2008
Chris_Quenelle says:
Be careful about installing SUNWhea or SUNWtoo explicitly. By default you'll ge...Be careful about installing SUNWhea or SUNWtoo explicitly. By default
you'll get the versions of those packages in the latest and greatest
opensolaris build. If you don't intend to upgrade your system
to the latest build, you'll have mismatched packages. Ideally,
if the dependencies were 100% correct, it would just update all
the parts of your system that are needed to make everything work,
but that doesn't always work. A better approach is to explicitly
install the packages from your "current" build. Eg:
pkg install SUNWhea@0.5.11-0.86