Intel® VTune™ Profiler User Guide

User Guide

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Set Up Project

Before you run an analysis with
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
, you must first create a
project
. This is a container for an analysis target, analysis type configuration, and data collection results. You use the VTune user interface to create a project. You cannot create one from the command line.
For Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE,
VTune
Profiler
 creates a project for an active startup project, inherits Visual Studio settings and uses the application generated for the selected project as your analysis target. The default project directory is
My
VTune
 Results-[project name]
 in the solution directory.
For the standalone graphical interface, create a project by specifying its name and path to an analysis target. The default project directory is
%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Amplifier XE\Projects
 on Windows* and
$HOME/intel/
vtune
/projects
 on Linux*.
To create a
VTune
Profiler
 project for the standalone GUI:
  1. Open the
    Create a Project
     dialog box using any of the following options:
    • Click the menu button and select
      New > Project...
      .
    • Click the
      New Project
       toolbar button.
    • Click the
      New Project...
       hyperlink in the
      Welcome
       page.
    For example, on Windows:
  2. In the
    Create a Project
     dialog box, configure the following settings:
    Use This
    To Do This
    Project Name
     field
    Enter the name of a new project.
    Location
     field and
    Browse
     button
    Choose or create a directory to contain the project.
    Store all your project directories in the same location.
    Create Project
     button
    Create a container
    *.
    vtune
    proj
     file and open the Configure Analysis window.
  3. Click the
    Create Project
    button.
    The
    Configure Analysis
    window opens.
Your default project is pre-configured for the Performance Snapshot analysis. This presents an overview of issues that affect the performance of your application. Click the
Start
 button to proceed with the default setup.
To select a different analysis type, click on the name of the analysis in the analysis header section. This opens an Analysis Tree with all available analysis types.
You cannot run a performance analysis or import analysis data without creating a project.

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.