Intel® Advisor User Guide

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Date 3/22/2024
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Setting Concurrency Specification

The concurrency specification is a list of the number of threads on which the graph is run. To set the concurrency:

  1. Open the Preferences window.

  2. Go to the Scalability > TBB category.

  3. Set the list in the Concurrency Specification field in the 1,a-b:n format, where:

    • 1 is the serial run. Because the speedup is estimated with respect to a serial run of a graph, by default, all graphs are first run serially before running on multiple threads. The addition of 1 is merely symbolic and informational, as its omission has no effect on the list.
    • a is the starting number of multiple threads.
    • b is the ending number of multiple threads.
    • n is the step size.

The default end value is the number of cores on the system and the default step size is a quarter of this value. The end value is always included in the list, even if it is not a direct multiple of the step size.

As an example, on a 32-core system, the default is 1,8-32:8. This results in the list 1,8,16,24,32, as shown below.



Other supported formats are a,b,c or only a if you want to see the speedup for only one set of threads.

You can also combine formats. The following shows some valid concurrency specifications:

  • Range without a step size: 16-64 yields 1,16,32,48,64
  • Range with a step size: 16-64:8 yields 1,16,24,32,40,48,56,64
  • Single value: 16 yields 1,16
  • List of values: 16,32,64 yields 1,16,32,64
  • Mix of range and list: 16-64,40,48,56 yields 1,16,32,40,48,56,64