Intel® VTune™ Profiler User Guide

User Guide

Contents

Launch
Intel® VTune™
Profiler

To work with the
Intel VTune
Profiler
, use the graphical interface (
vtune
-gui
) or command-line interface (
vtune
).
Intel® VTune™ Amplifier has been renamed to Intel® VTune™ Profiler starting with its version for Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit (Beta). You can still use a standalone version of the VTune Profiler, or its versions integrated into Intel Parallel Studio XE or Intel System Studio.
To accommodate the product name change, the command line tool
amplxe-cl
 is renamed to
vtune
. Graphical interface launcher
amplxe-gui
 is renamed to
vtune-gui
.

Set Up Environment Variables

Set up the environment variables for the standalone
VTune
Profiler
 by executing the
vars
 script:
Linux* OS:
source <>/env/vars.sh
Windows* OS:
<>\env\vars.bat
When you run the script, it displays the product name and the build number. You can now use the
vtune
-cl
 and
vtune
-gui
 commands.

Launch
VTune
Profiler
 from GUI

On Windows* OS, launch the
VTune
Profiler
 standalone GUI client either via the
Search
 menu or by locating the product from the
Start
 menu.
If you installed the
VTune
Profiler
 as part of Intel Studios (Intel Parallel Studio XE or Intel System Studio), choose from the
Start
 menu:
  • Intel Parallel Studio XE
    version
     >
    Intel VTune
    Profiler
    version
  • Intel System Studio
    version
     for Windows Target >
    Intel VTune
    Profiler
    version
  • Intel System Studio
    version
     for Linux and Android Targets >
    Intel VTune
    Profiler
    version
For the
VTune
Profiler
integrated into Microsoft* Visual Studio* IDE on Windows OS, you can open a command window with the environment set up to run the product. To do this, click
Start
 >
All Programs
>
Intel Parallel Studio XE
version
 >
Command Prompt > Parallel Studio
 and select the desired environment, such as
IA-32 Visual Studio 2017 Mode
.
On Apple* macOS* system, start
Intel VTune
Profiler
version
 from the Launchpad.

Launch
VTune
Profiler
 from Command Line

To launch the
VTune
Profiler
 from the command line, run the following scripts from the
<
install-dir
>/bin64
 directory:
To open a specific
VTune
Profiler
 project or a result file, enter:
>
vtune
-gui <
path
>
where
<
path
>
 is one of the following:
  • full path to a result file (
    *.
    vtune
    )
  • full path to a project file (
    *.
    vtune
    proj
    )
  • full path to a project directory. If the project file does not exist in the directory, the
    New Project
     dialog box opens and prompts you to create a new project in the given directory.
For example, to open the
matrix
 project in the
VTune
Profiler
 GUI on Linux, run: 
vtune
-gui /root/intel/
vtune
/projects/matrix/matrix.
vtune
proj

Product and Performance Information

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