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As part of the Sun Microsystems and Intel alliance, the two companies have collaborated to bring open source Threading Building Blocks (TBB) support to the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Sun Studio software toolchain. Check out the SUN Blog for additional information. Click the video below for a short interview with Deepanker Bairagi, Principal Engineer for the Sun Studio.

Software parallelism can unleash the processing power that the newer multi-core architectures provide, including the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors. For developers, multithreading offers a software parallelism model, but many existing solutions require a lot of low-level coding. Threading Building Blocks offers a rich approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program by offering higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.

The Solaris OS is able to take advantage of multicore architectures, including the Intel Architecture, with features such as a lightweight processes (LWPs), load-balancing across cores, and processor affinities. Sun Studio software offers a complete integrated toolchain for Solaris and Linux platforms, including parallelizing compilers, performance and thread analysis tools, memory and code debuggers, NetBeans-based Integrated Development Environment, and more.

Combined with Threading Building Blocks, developers for the Solaris platform now have a fully loaded toolbox that simplifies the development of optimized multithreaded applications for multi-core Intel processors. Click here to learn more about Threading Building Blocks and optimizing performance for multi-core processors.

Would like to hear from the community on how you see this impacting the next generation of software development for Solaris running on Intel Architecture.

Tags: performance, performance_tuning, sun, intel, threading_building, _blocks, solaris, sun_studio, multi-core, software_parallelism, server, xeon, the_server_room, c++
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May 8, 2008 3:50 PM Reply Click to view Server.Dude's profile Server.Dude

Awesome Information.

May 9, 2008 5:52 PM Reply Guest Dave Stewart

Hank - it's nice to see the fruits of our joint labor. Congratulations to the Sun Studio team and the Intel TBB team for making this happen! It shows good cooperation.

One thing I noticed in the press coverage for JavaOne on TBB - there seems to be some confusion by the press on whether TBB is available for Solaris or OpenSolaris or both. Can you clarify this?

May 19, 2008 1:41 PM Reply Click to view whlea's profile whlea in response to: Dave Stewart

Thanks for your question. According to my sources, Intel has verified that OpenSolaris works as well as commercial Solaris 10 for Threading Building Blocks. Hope that clarifies for all.