Intel® VTune™ Profiler Installation Guide for macOS*

Install Guide

Contents

Prerequisites

The following information is important to consider before beginning to install
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
.

System Requirements

Review the full list of system requirements listed in the Release Notes.

User Permissions for Install

It is recommended that an administrator account is used to install, change, or uninstall the product. Users without administrator (or root user) access can install the product, but not all collectors will be available.
The user installing the product should have read and write permissions for the
/tmp
 and
/Users/Shared/Library/Application Support/Intel/Licenses
 directories.

Previous Versions of
Intel VTune
Profiler

You do not need to uninstall previous versions or updates of
VTune
Profiler
 before installing a newer version. However, if you do not remove older updates before installing a newer version, all product components that belong to the same major release will be replaced with the latest version for each major release update.
For example, if you are installing Update 2 of the
VTune
Profiler
 2020, the
VTune
Profiler
 2020 Update 1 version will be uninstalled and replaced with the new content for the next update. If you are installing
VTune
Profiler
 2020 on top of VTune Amplifier 2019, your installation of VTune Amplifier 2019 will remain on your system and
VTune
Profiler
 2020 will be installed beside the old version, duplicating common files, documentation, samples, and product components.

Installing in a Cluster Environment

If you are installing in a cluster environment, you can install and use multiple versions of the product on the same system. However, kernel driver usage is limited to a single version of
VTune
Profiler
. This means you can have multiple copies of
VTune
Profiler
 installed without the Intel sampling drivers and a single version of the product with the drivers installed. The latter would be enabled with the advanced types of analysis using hardware event based sampling analysis data collection.

Xcode* Support

If you will be using Xcode*, make sure that a supported version of Xcode is installed. If you install a new version of Xcode in the future, you need to reinstall
VTune
Profiler
.

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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