Intel System Studio 2019 Get Started Guide
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: Offers a range of analysis types to fit multiple use cases on local or remote systems. Examine hotspots in your code, discover memory issues, optimize threading across multiple CPU cores, and so on.
Intel® Inspector: Debugs memory and threading errors in your code.
Energy Analysis and Intel® SoC Watch: Collects metrics that can be used to analyze power consumption and identify system behaviors that waste energy. Results can be viewed in CSV files or visualized with Intel VTune Amplifier.
Intel® Advisor: Helps identify areas where your application can benefit from improved vectorization and threading.
Open your pre-built application in Microsoft Visual Studio*.
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.
Select your analysis type and run the analysis.
Focus on the issues highlighted on the performance summary and follow the embedded instructions for optimization.
For more information, see the following resources:
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Basic steps to get you up and running with Intel VTune Amplifier. |
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The online user guide is the primary documentation for the VTune Amplifier. |
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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. |
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Performance analysis cookbook that contains recipes identifying and solving the most popular performance problems with the help of VTune Amplifier's analysis types. |
Open your pre-built application in Microsoft Visual Studio*.
No special compilers or builds are required. Use a normal debug or production build.
From the Visual Studio toolbar, click the New Analysis
button. The New Inspector Result window opens.
Select your analysis type from the drop-down and run the analysis.
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.
For more information, see the following resources:
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Basic steps to get you up and running with Intel Inspector. |
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The help is the primary documentation for Intel Inspector. |
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Tutorials show you how to use basic Inspector features. Inspector tutorials guide a new user through basic workflows with a short sample. |
Pick the energy analysis solution that best fits your workflow:
View a quick summary of energy analysis results on a target system by running the Intel SoC Watch command line tool. For detailed instructions, see the Intel SoC Watch Getting Started.
Visualize energy analysis results over time by importing results into Intel VTune Amplifier. For detailed instructions, see the energy analysis help.
For more information, see the following resources:
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Basic steps to get you up and running with energy analysis using the Intel SoC Watch command line tool. |
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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. |
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Intel SoC Watch User Guide Linux* and Android* | Windows* |
The user guide provides detailed information about each metric collected by Intel SoC Watch. |
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:
Vectorization Advisor is a vectorization optimization tool that helps you identify performance bottlenecks using Roofline, and discover where vectorization - or better vectorization - will pay off the most.
Threading Advisor is a threading design and prototyping tool that lets you analyze, design, tune, and check threading design options without disrupting your normal development.
For more information, see the following resources:
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Basic steps to get you up and running with the Advisor vectorization and threading tools. |
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Tutorials show you how to use basic Advisor features. Advisor tutorials guide a new user through basic workflows with a short sample. |
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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. |
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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. |
Visit this page for support and the latest online documentation. |