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Sun Studio Chalk Talk

By David Stewart (Intel) (174 posts) on August 20, 2008 at 3:46 am

I'm attending the Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco this week. I'll try to note comments on some of the talks I attend.

Sun gave a chalk talk on their C/C++ tool chain called Studio.

The talk was given by Vijay Tatkar, who has been with Sun for over 20 years doing compiler work. He has more recently managed the compiler work at Sun, and he is the smart leader of the team we work with for Intel Xeon processor optimization of the compiler and tools.

Some high points of the talk:

• Performance

  Great announcement of world-record SPECfp performance, shown at http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2250/benchmarks.jsp. This is a terrific world-record performance result, and was on OpenSolaris and Sun's new Xeon-based system, the x2250.

• Parallelism

  Parallelism can be expressed through OPENMP, MPI or the Intel Threaded Building Blocks, and analyzed through the thread analyzer in Studio

• Productivity

  Vijay fired up the Studio IDE and demonstrated a simple project, like pulling in the source of the echo(1) command from OpenSolaris and showing how the IDE let’s you walk through the source of a project.

• Platforms

  Studio works on the most popular Unix-like platforms out there: OpenSolaris and Linux

There were some good questions from the audience, particularly a question about how to analyze some performance issues.

Categories: Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: OpenSolaris, optimization, Sun Studio

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Comments (1)

August 21, 2008 5:18 PM PDT Vijay Tatkar

Thanx,Dave! I couldnt have said it better myself! We call them the 4Ps! I enjoyed the chalktalk and IDF thoroughly myself. Thanx for your contribution in this talk and the OpenSolaris talk as well Vijay

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