TBB on Sun Solaris*

With the support and contributions of Sun Microsystems, Threading Building Blocks (TBB) has reached an important milestone with a new version of TBB for Sun Solaris*. This is an exciting addition to the TBB project as it achieves greater portability to additional platforms.

TBB’s high-level task-based threading abstraction has now been extended to Sun Solaris developers who use Sun Studio* or Gnu* C/C++ compilers. Sun worked closely with Intel to modify TBB source code and optimize the Sun Studio compiler to enable TBB. The source code and pre-built binaries are available in the stable release section of the TBB Downloads pages and will be added to the OpenSolaris* repository soon.

Useful Links:

• Read Sun's Announcement
• Read Intel’s Announcement
• Read Intel's TBB Blog
• Read Intel's "The Server Room" Blog
• Download TBB Source Code & Sun Binaries from the TBB Downloads section.
• Download Sun Studio Express* (see Technical Note #1 below)
• Download Sun Studio 12* (see Technical Note #2 below)
• Read white paper Using Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio
• View videos on YouTube:
  • Intel/SUN Announce Threading Building Blocks 2.0 for Solaris Interview: In a brief interview Scott Smith of Intel speaks with Sun’s Deepanker Bairagi and Intel’s John McHugh about the announcement.
  • Sun-Intel Announce Threading Building Blocks for Solaris using Sun Studio: John McHugh sits down with Deepanker Bairagi to talk about the advantages of adding TBB to Sun Studio.
  • Deepanker Bairagi Demonstrates Threading Building Blocks using Sun Studio: Deepanker discusses the benefits of using TBB and shows how to access it from within Sun Studio.

Technical Notes:

1. The binaries were built with the Sun Studio Express beta February 2008.
2. This release also supports the Sun Studio 12 compiler when the latest compiler patches are installed. In the case of using Sun Studio 12, a short-term issue prevents the debug TBB libraries from building. To build the release libraries from source using the Sun Studio 12 compiler, use a command prompt to change directory (cd) into the TBB source directory (src) of the un-tarred source package and type “gmake release”.