What's New

VTune Amplifier XE 2013 Update 17

• Updated product toolbar providing quick access to the product documentation with the new Image may be NSFW.
  Clik here to view.Help button and to the Import dialog box with the Image may be NSFW.
  Clik here to view.Import Result button (standalone only)

• Remote system configuration options provided in the Project Properties: Target tab to specify a path to the VTune Amplifier installed on a remote machine and a path to a remote temporary directory used for storing performance results

• Updated Event Reference for Intel microarchitectures code name Ivy Bridge and Haswell

VTune Amplifier 2014 Update 1 for Systems

• Support for all algorithm analysis types (Basic Hotspots, Concurrency, and Locks and Waits) on remote Linux systems

VTune Amplifier XE 2015 Beta

• Improved OpenMP region analysis with the OpenMP Region grouping level in the Bottom-up window and the Region Instance Duration histogram in the Summary window

  · An option in the graphical and command line interface to import a csv file with the externally collected data into an existing VTune Amplifier result. Importing a csv file does not affect symbol resolution in the existing result.

• Auto-rebuild of sampling and power drivers at system boot time after Linux* kernel update

• OS X* host support for performing automated remote collection on other platforms and viewing collected results

• New TSX Exploration analysis type for 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors based on the Intel microarchitecture code name Haswell

• Summary window extended with hyperlinks for Top Hotspots and performance metrics navigating to the Bottom-up grid view

• Call Stack Mode default setting changed from Only user functions to User functions + 1 for better understanding of library usage

VTune Amplifier XE Update 16

• Graphical interface for remote data collection on Linux* systems via SSH

• Simplified User API collection setting for native analysis on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor

• Support for external data collection launched from the VTune Amplifier with the Custom collector target configuration option or-custom-collector command line option.

• An option in the graphical and command line interface to import a csv file with the externally collected data into an existing VTune Amplifier result. Importing a csv file does not affect symbol resolution in the existing result.

• Support for importing a csv file that does not specify a hostname for the target system but contains time stamps represented in the UTC format. In this case, the VTune Amplifier displays global data (not attributed to specific threads/processes) only.

• Search functionality for the grid views added to the toolbar

• Collection data limit option supported for hardware event-based analysis types

• Usability improvements for the structure of hardware event-based sampling analysis types to introduce cross-CPU basic configurations and separate advanced CPU-specific analysis configurations

• Grouping options in Timeline pane

• Event reference help for Intel microarchitecture code name Haswell and Intel® Xeon Phi™ corporcessor (code name: Knights Corner)

VTune Amplifier 2014 for Systems

• Graphical interface for remote data collection on embedded Linux* and Android* systems

• Support for hardware event-based sampling analysis and Basic Hotspots analysis on Android platforms

• Support for building the sampling driver as RPM with build services like Open Build Service (OBS) using the sepdk.spec file

VTune Amplifier XE Update 15

• Ability to change the focus function from the Caller/Callee panes

• Ability to collapse recursive functions in the Call Stack pane

• Improved Frame Rate Histogram representation per frame domain in the Summary window

• Automatic positioning of the hottest line in the Source/Assembly window after drilling down from the grid

• Support for importing global discrete counters collected externally

VTune Amplifier XE Update 14

• GPU OpenCL™ kernel analysis extended with memory transfers, visualization of OpenCL API and computing queue

• Standalone interface improved to provide more workspace for the analysis results

• Event-based stack sampling analysis of system processes for kernels and drivers

• Ability to cache source files and explore collected performance statistics later even if the source file has been changed

• Improved kernel stack analysis

• Support for Intel microarchitecture code name Silvermont

• Support for Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 and E5-1600 v2 processors based on the Intel microarchitecture code name IvyBridge-EP

• Simplified syntax for searching binary and symbol files with the -search-dir and source-search-dir command line options

VTune Amplifier XE Update 13

• Support for ITT pause/resume APIs on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor

• Support for adding external collection data (in the CSV format with a predefined structure) to the VTune Amplifier analysis result collected in parallel with external statistics.

• SSH-based remote collection via amplxe-cl

• Support for Microsoft* Windows* 8.1 operating system

• Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio* 2013 IDE

VTune Amplifier XE Update 12

• Tracing of OpenCL™ kernels execution on Intel Processor Graphics

• Bug fixes

VTune Amplifier XE Update 11

• Support for scientific data representation in the grid

• Source Function Stack grouping level enabling more accurate result comparison in the Top-down Tree pane

• Change Stack Layout option in the Top-down Tree and Bottom-up panes to switch between chain and tree types of stack layout

• Support for identifying function boundaries using static binary analysis methods for binaries without symbol information

• Event summary for hardware event-based sampling analysis results in the command line reports

VTune Amplifier XE Update 10

• An option to enable/disable matching application and working directories

VTune Amplifier XE Update 9

• Source and assembly data available in the command line reports

• Advanced Hotspots analysis (formerly, Lightweight Hotspots) introducing several collection levels

• Total metric for flat groupings in the Source/Assembly panes

• Overhead and Spin time classification for Microsoft OpenMP* runtimes

• Support for Hotspots, General Exploration and Bandwidth analysis types on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor (except for the user API analysis)

• GPU analysis for Intel Processor Graphics based on hardware metrics such as Execution Units(EU) Array Active/EU Array Stalled/EU Array Idle, GPU Memory Bandwidth, GPU L3 Cache Misses, and others

• GPU analysis based on DirectX* pipeline events and used to correlate CPU/GPU usage and identify whether the application is CPU or GPU bound

• Event Reference documentation separated from the basic help system and delivered per processor

VTune Amplifier XE Update 8

No documentation changes.

VTune Amplifier XE Update 7

• Assembly grouping by RVA, basic blocks, and function ranges

• Support for the hardware event-based sampling analysis of Windows Store C/C++, C# and JavaScript applications on Microsoft Windows 8* via the Attach to Process or Profile System modes

• Support for applications generated by MinGW/Cygwin GCC*

• Event summary for hardware event-based sampling analysis results in the command line reports

• Highlighting performance issues based on filtered-in data

VTune Amplifier XE Update 6

• Separate configuration tabs for binary/symbol search directories and source search directories

• Caller/Callee window enabling the detailed analysis of the parent and child functions for a particular focus function

• Optimized welcome page providing direct access to analysis configurations and recent analysis results

• Context help for hardware events and performance metrics columns in the grid

• Overhead and Spin time metrics in the grid and Timeline pane

• Time scale configuration (Elapsed time, OS timestamp, and CPU timestamp options) for the Timeline pane

VTune Amplifier XE Update 5

• Support of Hotspots, General Exploration and Bandwidth viewpoints for upcoming 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors based on the Intel microarchitecture code name Haswell

• Bug fixes

VTune Amplifier XE Update 4

• General Exploration analysis for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor

• General Exploration viewpoint for Intel microarchitecture code name Ivy Bridge

• Frame analysis for OpenMP* parallel regions

• Attaching to Java processes for hardware event-based sampling analysis types

• CPU utilization data in the Hotspots viewpoint for event-based sampling analysis results

• Event-based sampling analysis for OpenCL applications on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor (JIT collection)

• Usability improvements in the Timeline view

• Bug fixes

VTune Amplifier XE Update 3

• Loop Mode option in the filter bar to view a hierarchy of the loops in the application call tree

• Support multiple domains for __itt_frame_* API

VTune Amplifier XE Update 1 and Update 2

• Microsoft Windows* Server 2012 support

• Improved integration with Microsoft Windows* 8 operating system and Microsoft Visual Studio* 2012 IDE

• Search mechanism in grid views

• Options to manage generation of the command line for an analysis configuration selected via GUI