White Papers
Performance Analysis Guide for Intel® Core™ i7 Processor and Intel® Xeon™ 5500 Processors
This paper discusses the basic performance analysis methodology that applies to Intel® Core™ i7 processors and platforms that support Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA).
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Analyzing and Resolving Multi-Core Non Scaling on Intel® Core™2 Processors
Learn how to use the Intel® Core™2 processor performance events to identify the precise limitations that are restricting an application’s ability to scale out to the full compliment of available cores.
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Cycle Accounting Analysis on Intel® Core™2 Processors
Learn how to use performance events to create a detailed account of CPU cycle use in order to analyze and improve an application’s performance.
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Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer How-To Guide
Learn how to get the most out of Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer, how to interpret data, and how to set up event-based sampling.
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Using Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer to Optimize Software on Intel® Core™ i7 Processors
Learn how to use the features of Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer to optimize software on Intel® Core™ i7 processors.
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Secrets of Performance Tuning
This series of five articles describes how Intel® compilers and the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer are used together for software optimization. It serves as a guide for software developers to extract the best performance from Intel processors.
While these articles were developed with Intel® Itanium® processors in mind, several of the concepts explained apply to programming on Intel® Pentium® processors and Intel® 64 architecture-based processors.
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Accelerating Performance of the MiTAC Smartphone Camera Driver
Using examples from the MiTAC Smartphone camera driver, this paper describes step-by-step, how to get profiling data and improve code.
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Advantages of VTune Performance Analyzer over Other Profilers
This document highlights the unique capabilities of the VTune analyzer environment, compared to other profilers.
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Introduction to Microarchitectural Optimization for Itanium® Processors
This reference manual introduces the systematic use of Itanium® processor performance monitoring events to analyze execution efficiency.
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Java* Performance Profiling Using the VTune Performance Analyzer
This paper describes the use of the Call Graph feature and time- and event-based sampling in Java-based applications.
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Technologies for Measuring Software Performance: VTune Analyzers
This white paper outlines the use of the VTune analyzer environment to locate and resolve performance bottlenecks.
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