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Event-based Stack Sampling Analysis Workflow
The following figure shows steps required for extending regular hardware event-based sampling analysis to collect call stacks, threading and power efficiency data. To display more information about a...
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Changing Threshold Values
By default, the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier sets up the thresholds for CPU Usage, concurrency, and frame rate metrics based on your system data. These thresholds define Poor, OK, Ideal, and Over...
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Running Analysis
To run the analysis from the Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE:Choose your target.Build your target in the Release mode in the development environment of your choice.NoteMake sure you configured the...
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Sampling interval is the amount of wall-clock time the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier waits before collecting each sample. For user-mode sampling and tracing analysis types (Basic Hotspots, Concurrency, and...
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Parent topic: Configuring TargetsAbout Configuring Search DirectoriesSearch Directory OrderViewing and Configuring Project Search DirectoriesLingua Inglese
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Parent topic: Intel® VTune™ Amplifier User's GuideAbout Choosing TargetsCreating Projects and Choosing Targets in the Standalone InterfaceChoosing a Target in Visual Studio*Choosing a Target on the...
View ArticleSelf Time and Total Time
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier can calculate analysis-independent time spent within particular procedures and functions and within children (callees). This is the information for Self and Total time,...
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Branch Analysis
Branch analysis type uses event-based sampling collection and is targeted for Intel® microarchitecture code name Sandy Bridge.This analysis type uses events that help identify branching issues that...
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While Concurrency analysis helps identify where your application is not parallel, Locks and Waits analysis helps identify the cause of ineffective processor utilization. One of the most common problems...
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Getting Help
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier provides a Getting Started page with the links to installed resources like Tutorials using a variety of tuning scenarios for sample applications and links to documentation...
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The following conventions may be used in this document.ConventionExplanationExampleItalicUsed for introducing new terms, denotation of terms, placeholders, or titles of manuals.The filename consists of...
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Viewing Collected MPI Data
Once the results are collected, you can open them in the graphical or command line interface of the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.To view the results in the command line interface:Use the -report option. To...
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Cancelling Analysis
When you run the analysis, the command toolbar in the Analysis Type window is updated with a set of buttons managing the data collection.To cancel the analysis, click the Cancel button.Outcome: The...
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Collecting Call Count Data
If you enabled the stack collection for the hardware event-based sampling configuration, you may also configure the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier to statistically approximate the number of calls to sampled...
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Viewing and Configuring Project Search Directories
By default, for a C/C++ project, the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier finds binary, source and symbol files automatically using the data from the Microsoft Visual Studio* C++ project properties.In some cases...
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Choosing a Target in Visual Studio*
If during installation you chose to integrate Intel® VTune™ Amplifier into Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE, you may choose an analysis target and run a performance analysis directly from your development...
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Viewpoint
A Viewpoint is a preset result tab configuration that selects particular data collected during a performance analysis and enables you to focus on specific performance problems. When you select a...
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Cycles and UOps Analysis
Cycles and uOps analysis type uses event-based sampling collection and is targeted for Intel® microarchitecture code name Sandy Bridge.Use this analysis type to identify performance issues in the core...
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Bandwidth Breakdown Analysis
The Bandwidth Breakdown analysis type uses the event-based sampling collection and is targeted for Intel® Core™ 2 processor family. Use this analysis type to understand the contribution of different...
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Data of Interest
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier maintains a special column called Data of Interest. This column is highlighted with a yellow background and marked with a yellow star in the column header , as shown in the...
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