Intel System Studio 2019 Getting Started Guide

Get Started with Profiling and Analysis Using Intel® System Studio 2019 for Windows* OS

Explore the Analysis Components

The Intel® System Studio Professional Edition or Ultimate Edition offers several analysis tools to fit specific use cases. To resolve your performance issues, you may end up using more than one analysis tool to pinpoint problems and optimize your system.

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

  1. Open your pre-built application in Microsoft Visual Studio*.

  2. From the Visual Studio toolbar, click the Configure Analysis button. The Configure Analysis window opens with the target pre-configured to run on the application.

  3. Select your analysis type and run the analysis.

  4. Focus on the issues highlighted on the performance summary and follow the embedded instructions for optimization.

For more information, see the following resources:

Resource

Description

Getting Started

Basic steps to get you up and running with Intel VTune Amplifier.

User Guide

The online user guide is the primary documentation for the VTune Amplifier.

Tutorials

Tutorials show you how to use basic VTune Amplifier features. VTune Amplifier tutorials guide a new user through basic walkthrough operations with a short sample. The tutorials provide an excellent foundation before you read the VTune Amplifier help.

Cookbook

Performance analysis cookbook that contains recipes identifying and solving the most popular performance problems with the help of VTune Amplifier's analysis types.

Intel® Inspector

  1. Open your pre-built application in Microsoft Visual Studio*.

    Note

    No special compilers or builds are required. Use a normal debug or production build.

  2. From the Visual Studio toolbar, click the New Analysis button. The New Inspector Result window opens.

  3. Select your analysis type from the drop-down and run the analysis.

  4. Focus on the prioritized to-do list in the Problems pane. Click a problem to view additional details in the pane below, or double-click to view the full source.

    Summary window

For more information, see the following resources:

Resource

Description

Getting Started

Basic steps to get you up and running with Intel Inspector.

Help - Windows OS

The help is the primary documentation for Intel Inspector.

Tutorials

Tutorials show you how to use basic Inspector features. Inspector tutorials guide a new user through basic workflows with a short sample.

Energy Analysis

Pick the energy analysis solution that best fits your workflow:

For more information, see the following resources:

Resource

Description

Getting Started

Basic steps to get you up and running with energy analysis using the Intel SoC Watch command line tool.

Energy Analysis User Guide

The energy analysis help provides instructions on running and interpreting power profiling on local and target systems using Intel SoC Watch, Intel VTune Amplifier, and Intel System Studio.

Intel SoC Watch User Guide Linux* and Android* | Windows*

The user guide provides detailed information about each metric collected by Intel SoC Watch.

Intel® Advisor

Use this tool to effectively use more cores, vectorization, and heterogeneous processing by designing and optimizing high-performing code for modern computer architectures.

Both threading and vectorization are required to effectively use all hardware resources in compute-intensive applications. Together, they deliver dramatically more performance than either technique alone. Use one of the following tools offered within Intel Advisor to analyze your application:

For more information, see the following resources:

Resource

Description

Getting Started

Basic steps to get you up and running with the Advisor vectorization and threading tools.

Tutorials

Tutorials show you how to use basic Advisor features. Advisor tutorials guide a new user through basic workflows with a short sample.

Intel® Code Builder for OpenCL™ API

Develop and optimize OpenCL applications supporting heterogeneous programming solutions.

The SDK supports offloading compute-intensive parallel workloads to Intel® Graphics Technology using an advanced OpenCL kernel compiler, runtime debugger, and code performance analyzer.

Customize heterogeneous compute applications and accelerate performance:

For more information, see the following resources:

Resource

Description

Getting Started

Basic steps to get you up and running with Intel Code Builder for OpenCL API.

Sample Code and Tutorial

Use this whitepaper to work with OpenCL sample code and learn how to create a project using a basic tutorial.

Find More

Resource

Description

Intel® System Studio Code Samples and Tutorials

The sample code and tutorials available for download guide a new user through basic product features. Sample code illustrates common code inefficiencies and the corresponding tutorials show how the performance analysis products can be used to solve issues.

Additional Documentation

Use the online documentation for the latest content.

A downloadable ZIP file containing all Intel® System Studio documentation is available for offline use from https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-documentation-intel-system-studio-current-previous.

Intel® System Studio Product Page

Visit this page for support and the latest online documentation.

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