Team Lion F2017
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Intel Parallel Studio vTune Amplifier
What is VTune Amplifier?
- A tool created by Intel to provide performance analysis on software.
- Offers both a GUI and command-line version for both Windows and Linux
- GUI only for OSX
- Basic features available on both Intel and AMD processors, but advanced features only for Intel
How to use it?
- Available as a standalone unit or part of the following packages:
- Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition and Professional Edition
- Intel Media Server Studio Professional Edition
- Intel System Studio
Can be run on a local machine
Hotspots
Basic hotspot analysis
Advanced hotspot analysis
Parallelism
Concurrency
- Best for visualizing thread parallelism on available cores, finding areas with high or low concurrency, and identifying serial bottlenecks in your code
- Provides information on how many threads were running at each moment during application execution
- Includes threads which are currently running or ready to run and therefore are not waiting at a defined waiting or blocking API
- Also shows CPU time while the hotspot was executing and estimates its effectiveness either by CPU usage or by Threads Concurrency
Results of Concurrency tests on Workshop 6
matmul_0
matmul_1
matmul_2
matmul_3
matmul_4
with all running
Locals & Waits
HPC Performance Characterization
Microarchitecture
General Exploration
Memory Access
references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTune
https://software.intel.com/en-us/get-started-with-vtune
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-analysis-types
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-basic-hotspots-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-advanced-hotspots-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-concurrency-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-locks-and-waits-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-hpc-performance-characterization-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-general-exploration-analysis
https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-help-memory-access-analysis
