Intel® Advisor User Guide

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Collecting Traces for OpenMP* Applications

OpenMP* trace collection is currently supported only on Linux* and macOS* operating systems.
To collect OpenMP traces for an application, you need an OMPT-enabled OpenMP* version 5.0 library, such as LLVM-OpenMP.
To build a sample code (for example, the
omp_depend.cpp
 described in the Experimental Support for OpenMP* Applications) on a Linux OS with the
Intel® C++ Compiler Classic
, use the following command: 
icpc -std=c++11 -qopenmp omp_depend.cpp –o example
Please use
–g
 compiler flag to enable symbol resolution information.
To collect traces for OpenMP applications and create XML files, follow these steps:
  1. Set the
    FGT_ROOT
     variable and update your
    PATH
     environment variable as shown in the table below.
    OS
    Environment Variable
    Value
    Description
    Linux*
    FGT_ROOT
    <advisor-install-dir>/fga<version>/fgt
    The path to the Flow Graph Collector installation
    PATH
    ${FGT_ROOT}/linux/bin:${FGT_ROOT}/linux/bin/ia32/cc4.8_libc2.19_kernel3.13.0:${FGT_ROOT}/linux/bin/intel64/cc4.8_libc2.19_kernel3.13.0:${PATH}
    The path must include paths to
    fgtrun.sh
    ,
    fgtrun.csh
    , and
    fgt2xml.exe
    .
  2. To enable tracing from OMPT, set the following variables:
    OS
    Environment Variable
    Value
    Description
    Linux*
    OMP_TOOL
    Enabled
    OMPT tool support enabler.
    OMP_TOOL_LIBRARIES
    ${FGT_ROOT}/linux/lib/intel64/cc4.8_libc2.19_kernel3.13.0/libfgt.so
    Path to OpenMP collector library.
  3. Run the application.
    If your paths are set up correctly, the application generates one or more files that start with
    _fgt
    . There is one file per thread that participates in executing the parallelism in the application. So, for example, if two threads participate in the execution of the flow graph, running the application generates two files,
    _fgt.0
     and
    _fgt.1
    , in an autogenerated folder in the format
    _fga_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS
     according to its creation (for example,
    _fga_20191111_1111
     ).
  4. Convert the trace files to GraphML* and TraceML* format.
    Convert the
    _fgt
     binary files to the XML format understood by the Flow Graph Analyzer using the
    fgt2xml.exe
     converter in the directory containing the folder with the trace files: 
    fgt2xml.exe <desired_name> --omp_experimental
    or 
    fgt2xml.exe --omp_experimental <desired_name>
    or 
    fgt2xml.exe --omp_experimental
    This converter scans the current directory for all
    _fgt
     files within the most recent folder according to its name and generates two output files:
    <desired_name>.graphml
     and
    <desired_name>.traceml
    . If you do not provide a
    <desired_name>
    , the converter creates
    unknown.graphml
     and
    unknown.traceml
    .
    The
    omp_experimental
     flag enables displaying a subgraph and tasks dependence graph. By default, display support is disabled and you see only information related to OpenMP constructs in the per-thread traces.

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