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Cool Tools for Optimizing Your Applications

These free tools are designed specifically to help you optimize your applications using the Solaris OS and Sun servers based on Chip Multithreading (CMT) or x64 technology.

Deploying Optimized Applications

Application Selection

Cooltst

Development

Tuning & Debugging

ATS
Corestat

Deployment

Application Selection

CoolThreads Selection Tool (cooltst) helps determine application suitability for the UltraSPARC T1, T2, T2 Plus "CoolThreads" architecture.

Development

Sun Studio 12, with C, C++ and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms.
Sun Application Porting Assistant identifies incompatible APIs between Linux and Solaris platform and helps to simplify and speed up migration project estimation and engineering.
GCC for SPARC Systems (GCC4SS) delivers up to three times the performance of compiled applications with even greater levels of reliability.
Binary Improvement Tool (BIT) and Simple Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT) improve developer productivity and application performance by providing instruction and call-count data at runtime as well as automating code-data gathering and reporting.

Putting Cool Tools to Work

Optimizing Applications on your CoolThreads Server

Get the best performance from applications installed on your CoolThreads server with Application Resource Guides.

Tuning and Debugging

Corestat provides a more accurate measure of processor and system utilization to indicate where more tuning would be advantageous.

Automatic Tuning and Trouble-Shooting System (ATS) automatically re-optimizes and re-compiles binaries with no need for source code.

Deployment

CoolTuner provides an on-site "virtual" tuning expert, delivering system performance improvements by automatically applying both the latest patches and tuning best practices.
Cool Stack is a collection of the most commonly used free and open source applications, optimized for Sun SPARC Enterprise servers based on CoolThreads technology and x64 servers running the Solaris OS. Cool Stack has been recompiled to deliver a 30 to 200 percent performance improvement over standard binaries compiled with GCC.
Consolidation Tool for Sun CoolThreads Servers simplifies and automates the installation of consolidated applications with a wizard-based GUI, enabling administrators to create a fully virtualized and consolidated environment using Solaris Containers.

More information on Cool Tools

Learn how to accelerate application development, tuning, debugging, and deployment by using Sun CoolThreads servers and Cool Tools software.

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Eco Efficiency: Up to 4x higher performance per watt and in half the space
Savings: Up to 4x lower cost
Security: Integrated on-chip cryptographic acceleration
Virtualization: Built-in, no-cost virtualization
Flash Driven: Accelerate application response times with Flash SSDs

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