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Identify Long Latency Instruction Impacts
Long latency instructions such as division and square-root can introduce stalls during the execution.
Type: Tips and Techniques,Performance and Optimization
01/04/2012
Intel® FLEXlm* License Borrowing Capability
Describes the FLEXlm license BORROW capability.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing,Installation,Tips and Techniques
flexlm license manager License server FLEXlm manager license check-out license checkout borrow license borrow license borrowing 12/01/2011
Intel® Premier Support Frequently Asked Questions
This Intel® Premier Support FAQ describes what it is, who is eligible, how to obtain a login ID, how to submit issues and how to get product updates.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing,Software Defects
Intel® premier support frequently asked questions Intel® premier support premier support FAQ 11/28/2011
Intel® License Manager for FLEXlm* Servers
Links to the various FLEXlm* license servers used for managing floating licenses for Intel(R) Compilers.
Type: Installation
manager license server flexlm floating macrovision 08/24/2011
Processor-specific Performance Analysis Papers
Below are documents that discuss performance analysis on specific processors or family of processors. Using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE to Tune Software on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor F ...
Type: Performance and Optimization,Technical Notes
08/16/2011
How to Download Older Versions of VTune Analyzer
Instructions to download older versions, such as 9.1, of the VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer or VTune Amplifier XE.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing,Landing & Links
04/12/2011
Estimating FLOPS using Event Based Sampling (EBS)
Intel(R) VTune(TM) Amplifier XE can be used to estimate the FLOPS achieved by any given application.
Type: Tips and Techniques,Technical Notes
03/14/2011
VTune Amplifier XE 2011 installation on clusters
Using VTune Amplifier XE on clusters or other distributed environments which have an LDAP/NIS administration model and share file resources by NFS is as easy as on a local machine. The only trick is installation of the kernel driver.
Type: Installation
03/09/2011
VTune analyzer and VTune Amplifier XE coexistence
VTune analyzer and VTune Amplifier XE coexistence
Type: Compatibility,Technical Notes
02/22/2011
How Do I Measure Memory Bandwidth on an Intel® Core™ i7 or Xeon® 5500 Series Platform Using Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer?
Describes a process for measuring memory bandwidth for the Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 Processor Family.
Type: Known Issues,Tips and Techniques,Technical Notes
VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer for Windows* Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 processor VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer for Linux* Intel(R) PTU memory bandwidth Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5500 Series processor 02/03/2011
Package is corrupted. Installation cannot continue.
During the installation of Intel® Inspector XE or Intel® VTuneTM Amplifier XE products, if you encounter an error message like "Package is corrupted. Installation cannot continue." then please check the directory name.
Type: Installation,Errors and Diagnostics
01/18/2011
Download Intel® Performance Tuning Utility 3.2 Update 1
Download Intel® Performance Tuning Utility 3.2 Update 1
01/14/2011
Problem accessing the sampling driver. The driver may need to be (re)started...
This error message is an indication of Intel(R) VTune(TM) Amplifier XE not being able to access the sampling driver when lightweight hotspot or any other event based sampling analysis types is selected.
Type: Installation,Errors and Diagnostics
12/16/2010
How to switch between Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Intel® PTU
Switch between Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and Intel PTU is important. Regarding PTU documentation, PTU and VTune environements are not compatible. You must be sure to unload one before loading the other.
Author: Jérôme
Type: Performance and Optimization
Intel VTune VTune Performance Analyzer 10/29/2010
How to buy or renew Intel® Software Development Products
Details how to purchase and renew Intel Software Development products including single user, floating and node-locked licenses for commercial, academic or non-commercial use.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing
09/09/2010
Where are my threads? - Part II
In my previous article, “Where are my threads?” http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/where-are-my-threads , I briefly described the usage models for the Sample Over Time (SOT) feature of Intel® VTu ...
Type: Tips and Techniques,Performance and Optimization
08/27/2010
How do I download my software product files?
Instructions for logging into IRC, selecting a product and downloading product files.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing
download expired license 08/23/2010
How do you generate a core dump file to help diagnosing software crash?
Help developer to fix bug, found in your environment
Type: Tips and Techniques,Technical Notes
07/15/2010
Location of the End User License Agreement (EULA)
Where to find the EULA (end user license agreement) for the intel software development tools.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing
06/18/2010
Can’t create a new sampling activity in some new operation systems
This article helps that users work VTune(TM) Analyzer in some new Linux* operation systems
Type: Known Issues
VTune Sampling Wizard GTK+ Eclipse 06/11/2010
Should Intel license manager for FLEXlm be installed on the same OS machine as that the license is limited to?
If customers try to install the Intel license manager for FLEXlm on a different machine with that the license supports, should it be allowed? The article clarifies this question.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing,Installation,Tips and Techniques
Install license flexlm license manager 06/09/2010
How do I renew my license?
Learn how to extend or renew your commercial, academic, enabling, non-commercial or eval licenses for Intel developer products.
Type: Download, Registration, Licensing,Installation
renew license renewal 06/07/2010
Understand how redundant threads impact on your program’s running
This article helps to understand the result of data collector
VTune sampling SOT redundant threads 05/23/2010
Summary information can not be obtained after using First Use Wizard
Raise a technical issue/solution on VTune(TM) Peformance Analyzer on Lunux*
Type: Technical Notes
VTune First Use Wizard 04/18/2010
Does VTune analyzer work with Xen-enabled kernels?
There are conflicts on accessing the PMU hardware for virtual environments and we do not have a solution for event based sampling data collection.
03/09/2010