Current Tutorials
Use these tutorials as quick paths to start using Intel® VTune™ Profiler. Each tutorial demonstrates an end-to-end workflow that you can ultimately apply to your own applications.
Download Intel® VTune™ Profiler (as a standalone tool or as part of the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit).
Find current code samples in the library of Intel® oneAPI code samples used with VTune Profiler.
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Finding Common Performance Bottlenecks Duration: 20-30 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Profiler 2021 |
C++ Tutorial |
Understand where your application is spending time, identify the most time-consuming program units (hotspots), and detect hardware usage bottlenecks for a sample application. |
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Analyzing an OpenMP* and MPI Application |
C++ Tutorial |
Identify issues in a hybrid OpenMP and MPI application using MPI Performance Snapshot, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector, and Intel VTune Profiler. |
TIP: For more end-to-end analysis use cases, explore the Intel VTune Profiler Cookbook.
NOTE: Starting with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier has been renamed to Intel® VTune™ Profiler. You can use the standalone version of VTune Profiler or download it with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit.
Deprecated Tutorials
These tutorials are deprecated and have not been updated for the latest version of Intel VTune Profiler. These tutorials describe features in Intel VTune Amplifier. The features may be different in the current version of its successor, Intel VTune Profiler.
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Finding Hotspots Duration: 10-15 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Amplifier 2017 |
Fortran Tutorial |
Identify where your application is spending time, detect the most time-consuming program units and how they were called. |
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Analyzing Locks and Waits Duration: 10-15 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Amplifier 2017 |
C++ Tutorial |
Identify locks and waits preventing parallelization. |
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Identifying Hardware Issues Duration: 10-15 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Amplifier 2017 |
C++ Tutorial |
Identify the hardware-related issues in your application such as data sharing, cache misses, branch misprediction, and others. |
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Analyzing Disk Input/Output Waits Duration: 10-15 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Amplifier 2018 |
C++ Tutorial |
Analyze an I/O bound application that uses the system file cache and user buffer to work with the I/O device. |
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Identifying False Sharing Duration: 10-15 minutes Last Updated: Intel VTune Amplifier 2018 |
C Tutorial |
Identify false sharing. |
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Enabling Performance Collection on an Embedded Linux* System |
C++ Tutorial |
Configure a remote Linux embedded system built with the Yocto Project* 2.1 environment for application analysis with VTune Amplifier sampling drivers. Analyze where your application is spending time and identify the most time-consuming program units with Advanced Hotspots analysis. |
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Finding Hotspots on an Android* Platform |
C++ Tutorial |
Configure and run a remote Basic Hotspots analysis on an Android target system. |
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Analyzing Energy Usage on an Android* Platform |
Run the Energy analysis with the Intel SoC Watch collector (available with the Intel System Studio) directly on the target Android system and view the collected data with the VTune Amplifier installed on the host Windows* or Linux* system. |
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Analyzing Energy Usage on a Windows* Platform |
Tutorial |
Run the Energy analysis of an idle system and a sample application with the Intel SoC Watch collector (available with Intel System Studio) directly in the target Windows* system. Copy the results to the Windows host system and view the collected data with VTune Amplifier. |