Oracle Solaris Studio – Best Optimizing Compilers for x86?

Today, Oracle announced new Sun x86 servers, based on Intel Nehalem EX (Xeon 7500 series) and Westmere processors (Xeon 5600 series). As part of the launch, roughly a dozen+ industry benchmark records were set, with Oracle Solaris Studio contributing to most of them. These records represent best-of-class performance of applications across a wide spectrum, including integer, floating point, and OpenMP enterprise workloads:

SPECint_rate2006 : Sun Fire X4800 server, with eight Intel Xeon X7560 processors. Check the BestPerf blog entry for additional details.

SPECfp_rate2006 : Sun Fire X4800 server, with eight Intel Xeon X7560 processors. Check the BestPerf blog entry for additional details.

SPECfp_base2006 : Sun Fire X4170 M2 server, with two Intel Xeon X5670 processors.

SPECint_rate2006 : Sun Fire X4470 server, with four Intel Xeon X7560 processors. Check the BestPerf blog entry for additional details.

SPECompM2001 : Sun Fire X4470 server, with four Intel Xeon X7560 processors. Check the BestPerf blog entry for additional details.

SPECompL2001 : Sun Fire X4470 server, with four Intel Xeon X7560 processors. Check the BestPerf blog entry for additional details.

SPECompM2001 : Sun Fire X2270 M2 server, with two Intel Xeon 5600 processor series CPUs

Notably, the system stack that produced these x86 industry records did not include well-known offerings in the x86 market: MS Windows, Linux, HP/IBM hardware, nor Intel or gcc compilers. Rather, apps compiled by Oracle Solaris Studio for Oracle Solaris 10 OS, running on Sun Fire x86 systems. What does that mean to you? If application performance is a requirement for your x86 systems, developing with Oracle Solaris Studio for Oracle Solaris OS-based Sun Fire x86 systems should be a configuration you consider.

Check out our latest Express release, Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10, which contributed to many of the above benchmarks. You can provide feedback directly to the Studio product team via our Customer Feedback Program, which includes a 5 minute online survey.

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