topic Are these functionalities in Analyzers

Messuring Bandwidth

twingle123 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:09:19 GMT

Hi

Can anyone help me to find the bandwidth using vtune.

I know that using "Intel Microarchitectural Code Name Sandy Bridge - Bandwidth" anlaysis shows the bandwidth on graph. Is there any equation to get the bandwidth that shows on graph. The graph goes up and down, is there any way to get the average of the data in graph or data in graph.

Thanks in advance.

Messuring Bandwidth

Rob5 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:47:37 GMT

I may need to know more about what you would like to accomplish and the architecture you are working with. It sounds like you are looking for raw data to manually manipulate. However, Intel VTune Amplifier XE can be used to identify bandwidth issues in an application by exploring areas in the timeline. For example, hover over a bar with high bandwidth value to learn how much data was read from or written to DRAM through the on-chip memory controller.

Then use time-filtering context menu options to filter in a specific range of time during which bandwidth is notable or areas of interest. Then, switch to the core-based events that correlate with bandwidth in the grid below to determine what specific code is inducing all the bandwidth.

Some information about interpreting bandwidth data and microarchitecture differences can be found here. This document has numerous jump points to other informative bandwidth topics.

You may also find the article here and here of interest.

Can you provide more information about what you wish to accomplish or usage model?

- Rob

Messuring Bandwidth

twingle123 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:12:08 GMT

Hi Rob,

thanks for the reply.

I need information regarding how frequent an application is trying to access memory, whichis something relates to used memory bandwidth GB/sec of entire system or specific application to complete a task.

My board Specs:

Architecture: x86_64
sandy Bridge Desktop Board (Los Lunas)

Messuring Bandwidth

Rob5 — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:35:08 GMT

Thank you for your comments. I have added this Forum thread to an existing enhancement for additional functionality in this area. We will update this forum thread when this functionality is implemented in a future release of Intel VTune Amplifier XE.

- Rob

Are these functionalities

Surya_Narayanan_N_ — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:44:06 GMT

Are these functionalities implemented yet? IS there a way to read raw memory bandwidth data?

In xeon-phi, I see 2 ways of computing memory bandwidth.

1. using the Formula by collecting the hardware counter parameters.

2. By using the knc-bandwidth option which collects from uncore. (this is a time varying trend)

How to correlate the results of 1 and 2? (I feel 1 gives the peak bandwidth on overall system and 2 gives time varying bandwidth)

knc-bandwidth analysis is

Peter_W_Intel — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:26:13 GMT

knc-bandwidth analysis is ready in latest update, however the report still doesn't show data for timeline report in command line.

You have to open result on GUI, in bottom-up report to view peak Bandwidth GB/sec at any specific time (but no average value).

UNC_* event came with knc-bandwidth analysis, these counts indicates counts of memory read / write, you can summarize of them to know average, for my example:

memory read, average = 64 * Sum(UNC_F_CH?_NORMAL_READ[UNIT?]) / Elapsed time (Read GB per second)

Elapse time = CPU_CLK_UNHALTED / cpu_frequency (seconds)

[root@prc-mic01 peter]# amplxe-cl -report summary
amplxe: Using result path `/home/peter/r001bw'
amplxe: Executing actions 50 % Generating a report

General Exploration Metrics
---------------------------
Parameter r001bw
------------------- --------------
CPU Time 2.679
Clockticks 2920000000.000
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED 2920000000.000
Cache Usage 0.0
Vectorization Usage 0.0
TLB Usage 0.0

Collection and Platform Info
----------------------------
Parameter r001bw
------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------
Application Command Line ./sampleC01
User Name root
Operating System Intel MIC Platform Software Stack (Built by Poky 7.0) 3.1 \n \l
Computer Name prc-mic01-mic0
Result Size 2249257

CPU
---
Parameter r001bw
----------------- -----------------------------------------
Name Intel(R) Xeon(R) / Core i7 980X Processor
Frequency 1090000000
Logical CPU Count 244

Summary
-------
Elapsed Time: 1.872
CPU Usage: 1.197

Event summary
-------------
Hardware Event Type Hardware Event Count:Self Hardware Event Sample Count:Self Events Per Sample
------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------------- -----------------
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED 2920000000 292 10000000

Uncore Event summary
--------------------
Hardware Event Type Hardware Event Count:Self
----------------------------- -------------------------
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT0] 89430
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT1] 91204
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT2] 92531
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT3] 91662
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT4] 91337
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT5] 91530
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT6] 89342
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT7] 89278
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT0] 270245
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT1] 276991
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT2] 283183
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT3] 290350
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT4] 286246
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT5] 280344
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT6] 271939
UNC_F_CH0_NORMAL_READ[UNIT7] 274661
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT0] 91273
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT1] 88160
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT2] 88479
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT3] 88407
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT4] 87980
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT5] 88773
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT6] 89068
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_WRITE[UNIT7] 91035
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT0] 277193
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT1] 255347
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT2] 267978
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT3] 271965
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT4] 264233
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT5] 274355
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT6] 274653
UNC_F_CH1_NORMAL_READ[UNIT7] 284945
amplxe: Executing actions 100 % done