Intel® Advisor Help
After you launch the Microsoft Visual Studio* (on Windows* OS) or Intel® Advisor GUI environment and choose your target, you can begin the process of using the Intel Advisor tools to help you add parallelism into parts of your program.
To launch the Intel Advisor tools, use one of the following:
In the Visual Studio Tools menu, click Intel Advisor [version] and choose the desired action.
In the Intel Advisor GUI, click File >New and choose the desired action.
In the Intel Advisor toolbar, select the desired action by clicking the appropriate icon in a drop-down list:
In the
Intel Advisor GUI, click the downward arrow icon
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In Microsoft Visual Studio, click the downward arrow icon
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To display the installed help or the Getting Started page, or view online videos or articles, click the
or
icon on the
Intel Advisor toolbar. The Getting Started page introduces the
Intel Advisor and provides links to the installed tutorials, documentation, and online internet resources.
The following table lists the actions available:
To Do This |
Use the Menu |
Use the Advisor Workflow Tab |
Use the Toolbars |
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Run the Survey analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Survey Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Survey Analysis |
Below
Survey Target, click the
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Select Start Survey Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Run the Trip Counts and FLOP analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Trip Counts and FLOP Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Trip Counts and FLOP Analysis |
Below
Find Trip Counts and FLOP click the
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Select Start Trip Counts and FLOP Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Run the Roofline analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Roofline Analysis. In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Roofline Analysis. |
Below
Run Roofline, click the
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Select Start Roofline Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Run the Memory Access Patterns analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Trip Counts Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Memory Access Patterns Analysis |
In the
Vectorization Workflow below
Check Memory Access Patterns click the
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Select Start Memory Access Patterns Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Run the Dependencies analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Dependencies Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Dependencies Analysis |
Below
Check Dependencies click the
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Select Start Dependencies Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Run the Suitability analysis
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Start Suitability Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Suitability Analysis |
In the
Threading Workflow tab below
Check Suitability click the
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Select Start Suitability Analysis in the Advisor toolbar list. |
Create the data snapshot (read-only version)
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor [version] > Create Data Snapshot In the product GUI, find the
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Select Create Data Snapshot in the Advisor toolbar list. |
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Open the Project Properties dialog to view and modify project properties. |
In Visual Studio, click
Tools >
Intel Advisor [version] >
In the product GUI, click File > Project Properties... |
Click
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In the Intel Advisor product GUI, open or close the Project navigator |
In the product GUI, click View > Project Navigator |
Click
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In the product GUI, create a new project. |
In the product GUI, click File > New > Project... |
Click
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In the product GUI, open an existing project. |
In the product GUI, choose either:
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Click the
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Temporarily stop data collection while the target continues to run. |
Click the
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Resume data collection that you previously paused or that was started as paused. |
Click the
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Stop target execution and data collection, and display the result collected thus far. This button is enabled when the collection is in progress. |
Click the
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Cancel the target execution and data collection. Discards the data collected so far. This button is enabled when the collection is in progress. |
Click the
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Cancel data finalization. Retains the data collected. This button is enabled when data finalization is in progress. |
Click the
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