Self 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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Intel® Threading Building Blocks Analysis
If you used the Intel® Runtime libraries for the development, you can run:Basic Hotspots, Advanced Hotspots, and Concurrency analysis to identify the impact of Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel...
View ArticleSandy Bridge Analysis
Parent topic: Microarchitecture and Platform AnalysisAccess Contention AnalysisBranch AnalysisClient AnalysisCore Port Saturation AnalysisCycles and UOps AnalysisMemory Access AnalysisPort Saturation...
View ArticleAdvanced Hotspots Analysis
Advanced Hotspots analysis is a fast and easy way to identify performance-critical code sections (hotspots). The periodic instruction pointer sampling performed by Intel® VTune™ Amplifier identifies...
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Visual Studio IDE: Basic Workflow
The following figure shows an overview of the basic analysis workflow for the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE. To display more information about a workflow...
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Interpreting Frame Data
Use the Frame API to analyze code frames and identify bottlenecks in your application caused by slow or fast frame rate. To interpret the performance data provided during the frames analysis, you may...
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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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Stopping 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 stop the analysis, click the button or press Ctrl-C.Outcome:...
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Application Idle/Active Power Consumption
Configure the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier to collect special metrics and analyze idle and active power consumption of your system and the impact your software has on the system behavior.To enable power...
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Data Collection Limit
When running an analysis, the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier collects a predefined amount of data and suspends data collection. This prevents from collecting large amount of data that may slow down the data...
View ArticleSampling and Power Drivers
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier uses kernel drivers to enable the hardware event-based sampling and Intel Energy Profiler analysis (the latter is available with the VTune Amplifier for Systems only). VTune...
View ArticleHardware Event Skid
Event skid is the recording of an event not exactly on the code line that caused the event. Event skids may even result in a caller function event being recorded in the callee function.Event skid is...
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General Exploration Analysis
General Exploration analysis type uses event-based sampling collection and is targeted for the Intel® Xeon™ Phi coprocessor.This analysis is a good way to triage hardware issues in programs running on...
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Write Bandwidth Analysis
Write Bandwidth analysis type uses event-based sampling collection and is targeted for Intel® processors code name Beckton or Eagleton.The Write Bandwidth analysis type measures the data written to...
View ArticleIntel® VTune™ Amplifier User's Guide
Parent topic: Intel® VTune™ AmplifierPerformance Analysis with Intel® VTune™ AmplifierIntel Energy Profiler AnalysisBefore You BeginChoosing TargetsConfiguring Target OptionsChoosing Analysis...
View ArticleProduct Website and Support
The following links provide information and support on Intel® VTune™ Amplifier: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xeIntel VTune Amplifier XE product page providing links to the...
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Interpreting GPU OpenCL™ Application Analysis Data
NoteThis type of analysis is supported by the VTune Amplifier XE only.If you identified with the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier that your application is GPU-bound and you know that your application uses...
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Choosing Data Format
To configure the format of the performance data provided in the Bottom-up and Top-down Tree panes, right-click the column, select Show Data As > from the context menu and choose between available...
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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 button.Outcome: The Intel®...
View ArticleExternal Data Import
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier provides an option to correlate interval or discrete data, provided by an external collector, with the regular data provided by the analyzer. For example, you can see how the...
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