Intel multi-core threading library supports Sun Studio

Sunday, May 11 2008 @ 03:23 PM EDT

Contributed by: sde

As part of their ongoing alliance, Intel and Sun Microsystems have ported Intel's Linux-compatible multi-core C++ development library to the Linux- and Solaris-compatible Sun Studio. The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) technology has also been made available for the latest version of the Solaris operating system (OS).

Announced last July for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, under the "GPLv2 with runtime exception" license, TBB is now available for the Sun Studio software toolchain, which can be used with Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, as well as with with Solaris on SPARC processors. Sun Studio is said to provide parallelizing compilers, performance and thread analysis tools, memory and code debuggers, and a NetBeans-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

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