Intel® VTune™ Profiler 2020 is now available

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Intel® VTune™ Profiler 2020 (formerly “Intel® VTune™ Amplifier) is now available. https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune 

Features Overview

• Command line interface amplxe-cl and GUI interface amplxe-gui were re-named to vtune and vtune-gui respectively
• Intel® VTune™ Profiler has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• GPU accelerators support:
  • New GPU Offload analysis added to explore and correlate code execution across CPUs and GPUs. You can identify a kernel of interest for GPU-bound applications and explore further with GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis.
  • GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis updated with GPU in-kernel analysis for OpenCL™ code and an option to filter by a kernel of interest.
  • Command line hotspots report now supports GPU analysis types. You can apply the computing-task and computing-instance groupings to your collected data to focus on time-intensive computing tasks.
  • Dynamic instruction count collection (available as part of the GPU Compute/Media Hotspots Analysis) improved to provide better accuracy for basic block Assembly analysis.
  • Support for Intel® Processor Graphics Gen11.
• Platform analysis support:
  • System Overview analysis updated to serve as an entry point to platform analysis. Use this analysis to assess system (IO, accelerators and CPU) performance and review guidance for next steps.
  • New Hardware Tracing mode in the System Overview analysis enables application analysis on the micro-second level and identification of causes for latency issues.
• HPC analysis improvements:
  • Max and Bound Bandwidth metrics added to Application Performance Snapshot to better estimate the efficiency of the DRAM, MCDRAM, Persistent Memory and Intel® Omni-Path usage.
• Platform Profiler new features and improvements:
  • Overview and Memory views extended with new metrics to analyze Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) behavior.
  • User authentication and authorization implemented to enable access control to user data.
  • Added a new option for users to choose or modify the location of Platform Profiler data files.
• Energy analysis improvements:
  • New Throttling analysis added to identify causes for system throttling, including violation of safe thermal or power limits.
  • Options for Energy analysis, based on the Intel SoC Watch data collector, extended to monitor processor package energy consumption over time and identify how it correlates with CPU throttling.
• Cloud and containerization support:
  • Containerization support extended with an option to install and run  VTune™ Profiler in a Docker* container and profile targets inside and outside the same container.
  • Added support to profile applications running in Amazon Web Services* (AWS) EC2 Instances based on Intel microarchitecture code name Cascade Lake X.
• New Fabric Profiler performance tool added to VTune™ Profiler in  Preview mode. Use Fabric Profiler to identify detailed characteristics of the runtime behavior for an OpenSHMEM application.
• Quality and usability improvements:
  • Symbol resolution for effective source-level analysis enabled for crossgen (Ahead-of-JIT compilation) functions on Linux* systems.
  • Interactive Help Tour (available on the Welcome page) guides you through the product interface using a sample project.
• New hardware/operating systems/IDEs support:
  • 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors
  • Ubuntu* 19.10
  • Microsoft* Windows* 10, November 2019 Update