Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

Standalone GUI: Basic Workflow

The following figure shows an overview of the basic analysis workflow for the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier . To display more information about a workflow step:

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Build your target in the release mode. Click to learn more. Create a VTune Amplifier project and specify an analysis target and analysis type. Click to learn more.Before running a VTune Amplifier analysis, you have to specify what you want to profile - your analysis target, which could be an executable file, a process, or a whole system. Run algorithm tuning or hardware event-based analysis. Click to learn more. Analyze performance per metrics and identify hotspot functions. Click to learn more. Explore source code to identify hot code lines. Click to learn more. Optimize the source code. Click to learn more. Configure options for the target application. Click to learn more. Configure data collection. Click to learn more. Analyze performance difference before and after code optimization. Click to learn more.

  1. Build your analysis target and create a baseline.

  2. Create a VTune Amplifier project.

  3. Configure your analysis target.

  4. Choose and configure an analysis type.

  5. Run analysis.

  6. Interpret collected results.

  7. Analyze source.

  8. Edit your code.

  9. Re-build the target and re-run the analysis.

  10. Compare results before and after optimization.

Parent topic: Getting Started

See Also

Standalone VTune Amplifier Interface
Performance Analysis Setup
Energy Analysis Workflow with VTune Amplifier for Systems