Like the Intel Advisor toolbar, the Advisor Workflow helps you launch Intel Advisor tools. In addition, it helps guide you through steps in the Intel Advisor workflow, and keeps track of your progress through the workflow:
When using Visual Studio, the Advisor Workflow appears in the same frame as the Solution Explorer. To display the Advisor Workflow, do one of the following:
From the Visual Studio menu, click Tools> Intel Advisor XE 2015> Open Advisor Workflow
From the Intel Advisor GUI menu, click File> View> Open Advisor Workflow
On the Intel Advisor toolbar, click the
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icon.The following table summarizes use of the Advisor Workflow.
To Do This | Use This |
|---|---|
Learn about each workflow step as you progress through the workflow. | View the text below the step's name in the Advisor Workflow. The text includes relevant links to the Intel Advisor help. |
1. Survey Target - Run the Survey tool | Click the |
2. Annotate Sources - Add annotations | View instructions under 2. Annotate Sources and click the |
3. Check Suitability - Run the Suitability tool | Click the |
4. Check Correctness - Run the Correctness tool | Click the |
Obtain a dashboard-like view of your proposed parallel site characteristics. Evaluate the performance benefits and the costs of fixing data sharing problems to decide whether to modify parallel site and tasks before adding parallel code. | Use the |
5. Add Parallel Framework - Add parallelism | View instructions under 5. Add Parallel Framework and click the |
to profile your target program to locate hotspots.
into your sources to mark possible parallel regions.
button to view the steps. Use the Visual Studio code editor and the Intel Advisor Annotation Wizard to add annotations into your sources. Use the Survey Report and its Survey Source window to help you locate the code regions where you will add annotations. To help you add build settings or annotations, use the annotation assistant in the Survey windows.
to predict approximate performance improvements by sampling your program. This tool uses your inserted annotations to predict site and task performance characteristics.
to predict likely data sharing problems before you add parallelism to your program. This tool uses your inserted annotations to predict data sharing problems.
Summary window to provide a side-by-side view of the collected Suitability and Correctness data for your specified annotations. This window also provides quick access to detailed data in the Report windows and to tool analysis details.The Advisor Workflow is a simplified form of the full Intel Advisor workflow diagram.
To stop data collection, use the buttons in the Survey Report, Suitability Report, or Correctness Report window.