Most Recent and Popular Ones Listed
The Oracle-Sun downloads page offers the latest downloads along with a list of the top software visitors have downloaded. The page also offers its featured downloads, such as Java, NetBeans, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and more. This article lists the most recent and top downloads, and links to access them.
Provides Basics on Using Tool to Identify Performance Issues
Maria Tishkova demonstrates runtime profiling using DLight, which unifies application and system profiling with DTrace technology on Solaris platforms. System profiling tools like DLight allows for the exploration of a system to help users understand how the system works and track down performance problems across many software layers.
Short Items of Interest to the HPC Community
An Academic Shares Her Experience with the Open Source OS
Sun’s cutting-edge innovations is one of the reasons many universities collaborate with the vendor. British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) is an example. In a nine-minute video, Sun Staff Engineer Eric Saxe discusses SFU’s collaboration with Sun on OpenSolaris with Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova, SFU assistant professor in the School of Computing Science, who shares why she believes the open source OS is a great research and teaching tool.
Open-Source Software Solution for Linux-Based HPC Clusters on Sun Hardware 
The Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 is an integrated, open-source software solution for Sun HPC clusters. A ready-made framework of software components turns a bare-metal system into a running HPC cluster. This latest edition features support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10sp2, Sun supported cluster software (Sun ClusterTools, Sun Studio, Sun Grid Engine), Lustre 1.8.0.1, MPI libraries pre-built with Pathscale and Sun Studio x86 compilers and more.
CPU2006 Throughput World Records with Sun Blade X6440s in Sun Blade 6048 Chassis 
World record SPEC CPU2006 rate results were attained by a Sun Constellation system composed of 48 Sun Blade X6440 server modules in a Sun Blade 6048 chassis, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler. Gnanakumar Rajaram reports on these results.
Includes New Debuggers, Visualization Technology and Support for Parallelism
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 is the latest version of Sun’s compilers and performance tools designed for the C, C++ and Fortran developer communities. As we mentioned when it was released in June, this major update delivers new optimizations and features for OpenSolaris, Solaris and the latest Linux operating systems such as optimized compilers with auto-parallelization, multi-thread aware code-level and memory debuggers, a thread analysis tool that identifies race and deadlock conditions in multithreaded code, a performance analyzer, DLight for unified application and system profiling using Solaris DTrace technology, support for OpenMP 3.0 and a next-generation IDE based on the NetBeans project.
Business Ready HPC Solutions for Small- and Mid-sized Organizations
Sun can deliver complete HPC clusters for small- and mid-sized organizations, offering an end-to-end HPC architecture that is designed to grow from a single rack up to tera- and peta-scale deployments. In a white paper entitled “Building HPC Systems for Business-critical Workloads,” readers can learn about the Sun Rapid Solutions Sun Compute Cluster that provides easy-to-deploy clusters with a choice of components including compute, storage, network, software and services.
Quick Reference Guide for Developers
This quick reference guide is intended for developers interested in a briefing on what specific capabilities of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series systems can be optimized with the Solaris Operating System. The authors provide a short overview of the Sun and Intel collaboration, and briefly highlight technical descriptions of specific features and capabilities in the two companies’ technologies. It specifically covers intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, reliability & availability and developer tools. Numerous record-setting benchmarks complete the 39-page PDF.
Optimized Compilers, New Tools Geared to Ease Development
Now available, the free download of Sun Studio 12 Update 1. This is a major update to the software compiler and tools solution. Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux platforms specifically geared towards C, C++ and Fortran developers. It provides parallelizing compilers, debuggers, advanced thread and performance analysis tools and highly-tuned libraries to provide an optimized development environment for the latest multi-core x86 and SPARC-based systems.
