Intel® Advisor Help
After you launch the Microsoft Visual Studio* 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 or the Solution or Project context menu, click
Intel Advisor 201n 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 the
Intel Advisor GUI:
In the Intel Advisor GUI: |
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In Microsoft Visual Studio*, click
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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 tool
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > Start Survey Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Survey Analysis |
Below
Survey Target click the
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Click
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Run the Trip Counts tool
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > Start Trip Counts Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Trip Counts Analysis |
Below
Find Trip Counts click the
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Click
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Run the Suitability tool
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > 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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Click
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Run the Dependencies tool
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > Start Dependencies Analysis In the product GUI, click File > New > Start Dependencies Analysis |
Below
Check Dependencies click the
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Click
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Run the Memory Access Patterns tool
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > 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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Click
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Create the data snapshot (read-only version)
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In Visual Studio, click Tools > Intel Advisor 201n > Create Data Snapshot In the product GUI, find the
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Click
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Open the Project Properties dialog to view and modify project properties. |
In Visual Studio, click
Tools >
Intel Advisor 201n >
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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