This webinar will highlight the features of Intel Parallel Studio XE by using them to build and analyze HMMER, http://hmmer.janelia.org/, an application which is a component of SpecInt. We will make use of the new hardware event based sampling analysis with stacks feature in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE to find out which code paths, context switches or threading inactivity cause performance problems in HMMER, and the code optimization features of the Intel® Composer XE compiler to improve the performance of HMMER on 3rd generation Intel Core™ Processors. In addition we will show how to use Intel® Inspector XE to locate memo