Sun revs HPC tools

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From Josh Simons’ section of Mother Sun’s corporate blog server comes news of Sun tools announcements

Sun logoThe first announcement extends Sun’s support of Open MPI to Linux with the release of ClusterTools 8.1. This is huge news for anyone looking for a pre-built and extensively tested version of Open MPI for RHEL 4 or 5, SLES 9 or 10, OpenSolaris, or Solaris 10. Support contracts are available for a fee if you need one, but you can download the CT 8.1 bits here for free and use them to your heart’s content, no strings attached.

…The second event was the release of Sun Studio Express 11/08, which among other enhancements adds complete support for the new OpenMP 3.0 specification, including tasking. If you are questing for ways to extract parallelism from your code to take advantage of multicore processors, you should be looking seriously at OpenMP. And you should do it with the Sun Studio suite, our free compilers and tools which really kick butt on OpenMP performance. You can download everything–the compilers, the debugger, the performance analyzer (including new MPI performance analysis support) and other tools for free from here. Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, and Linux (RHEL 5/SuSE 10/Ubuntu 8.04/CentOS 5.1) are all supported. That includes an extremely high-quality (and free) Fortran compiler among other goodies. (Is it sad that us HPC types still get a little giddy about Fortran? What can I say…)