Intel® VTune™ Profiler User Guide

User Guide

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Targets in a Cloud Environment

You can use
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
 to run application performance analysis in the user-mode sampling mode on Windows* or Linux* virtual machine based instances or any analysis type on a bare-metal cloud instance.
These cloud service providers are supported:
  • Amazon Web Services* (AWS)
  • Google Cloud Platform*
  • Microsoft Azure*
You can install
VTune
Profiler
 either directly on the cloud instance or on a Windows, Linux, or macOS* host system and target a Linux cloud instance for remote analysis.
Prerequisites:
  • Existing account with one of the supported cloud service providers
  • Existing Linux or Windows instance in the cloud
  • Linux instance: Root or sudo privileges to enable user-mode sampling Hotspots analysis by setting
    /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
     to
    0
    . See the
    Intel VTune
    Profiler
     Release Notes     for instructions on enabling it permanently.
  • If installing in the cloud: At least 25GB of instance storage
To install
VTune
Profiler
 on the cloud instance, copy the
VTune
Profiler
 installer to the cloud instance and
run the installer. For more information, see the
VTune
Profiler
 install guide for Windows or Linux
.
A use case with steps for installing and configuring
VTune
Profiler
 on an Amazon Web Services instance and running a Hotspots analysis on that instance is available from the
VTune
Profiler
 Cookbook.

Product and Performance Information

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Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice.

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