Event based sampling uses counters on the Intel processors to detect what your software is doing. This is helpful for tuning and improving software performance. Typical hotspot analysis shows you where your software spends most of the execution time, but event based sampling allows you to see not just what sections of your application take the most time but why and what it is doing.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Visualize this! where we talk about topics relating to Visual computing. I am Arti Gupta community manager for games development at Intel Software Network.

For Siggraph this year we decided on streaming live interviews with software vendors who are well known in the visual computing world and have worked with Intel products.

I spoke with John Civatte Director of Sales at BOXX technologies about the 4850 workstation, 10300 Render farm and Intel processors