SiSoftware has announced the availability of SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, PDAs1, Smart Phones1, small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks.
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a 32 and 64-bit Windows system analyser that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:
# SMP - Multi-Processor
# MC - Multi-Core
# SMT/HT - Hyper-Threading
# MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 - Multi-Media instructions
# Wireless MMX - Mobile multi-media instructions
# NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
# AMD64/EM64T/x64 - 64-bit extensions to x86
# IA64 - IntelItanium 64-bit

Key features:
# 4 native architectures support (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium3, ARM).
# 3 native platforms support (Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE4).
# Additional platforms supported through Java RE (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Solaris5).
# Additional platforms supported through .NET CLR (e.g. Mono/Linux5).
# 19 established benchmarking modules, 4 new to this version.
# 38 detailed information modules, 4 new to this version.
# Huge official hardware support through technology partners (Intel, AMD/ATI, SiS, VIA)
# Future instructions set support (Intel SSE46, AMD SSE4A6) on x86 and x64/AMD64/EM64T platforms.
# 6 charting options: combined, detailed, differences, components, performance vs. speed charts.
# 5 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Russian) in a single installer.

Notes:
# 1 .NET (Compact) Framework 2.0 and later supported.
# 2 Sun Java SE 6 (1.6.x) and later supported.
# 3 By special arrangement.
# 4 By special arrangement; device SDK required.
# 5 By special arrangement; Applet version only.
# 6 Unreleased, next-generation pre-release platforms at publication time.