Sun Java™ Support for Itanium® Platforms

The Alliance is pleased to announce that Sun Java SE 6 Update 7 Itanium Port is officially released and generally available. The culmination of a deep collaborative effort between Intel and Sun, the new Sun Java release supports both Windows and Linux environments and provides a robust development platform for Itanium-based solutions. Improvements in Hotspot Virtual Machine and class libraries deliver significant performance gains over the last Java release for Itanium.

The product demonstrated excellent stability and conformance in both development lab testing and Beta test and should deliver excellent user performance. The new JDK for Windows and Linux (both Red Hat and SUSE) on Itanium can be downloaded directly from Sun at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

Intel® Software Network

Intel has created an Itanium® content community that provides technical articles related to the Itanium architecture, development tools, porting and optimization guidelines, as well as, issue resolution. http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/categorylisting.aspx?categoryid=114

SGI Developer Community

SGI has provided a central portal for Itanium developers interested in joining SGI's developer program, online developer consulting, as well as, developer tools, libraries and resources for programming on the Intel Itanium architecture. http://www.sgi.com/developers/

Parallel-programming.org

Parallel-programming is a comprehensive web portal for work related to parallel programming research and development for many core systems. This site includes pointers to relevant research work, papers, workshops, and conferences. http://www.parallel-programming.org/

Gelato.org

Gelato is the central information source for activities, news, and discussions relating to Linux on the Itanium computing platform. http://www.gelato.org

Solution Center Network

The Itanium® Solutions Alliance has established a collaborative network of centers to facilitate and expedite the remote porting and optimization of applications to the Intel® Itanium® processor family. The network offers software developers the tools and technical support from resources across the Alliance required to accelerate enterprise-class solutions availability. The Solutions Center Network seeks to accelerate the availability of Itanium®-based solutions on Microsoft® Windows®, Novell® SUSE® and Red Hat® operating systems in the marketplace, to provide synergy to this ecosystem and to provide global coverage for Itanium-based solutions. Click here to enter our Solution Center Network.