------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer for Windows* OS README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer provides an integrated performance analysis and tuning environment with graphical user interface and command-line capabilities that help you analyze code performance on systems with IA-32 architecture, IA-64 architecture, and systems with Intel(R) 64 architecture. For information on VTune analyzer installation, see instructions in the Installation Guide, located at \DOC\INSTALL.txt By default, the is C:\Program Files\Intel\VTune. Product Directories ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following directory map indicates the default structure of the installed files and identifies the contents of the main sub-directories. +-- Program Files [+-- Program Files (x86) when installing on a 64-bit | operating system] | + -- Intel | +-- vtune | +-- Analyzer (binaries and executable files) | +-- DOC (README, install guide, release notes and reference PDF files) | +-- Examples (demo files) | +-- global_data (data created by the VTune analyzer and used | by different VTune analyzer projects on this system) | +-- Help (online documentation) | +-- tprofile (Intel(R) Thread Profiler files) | +-- Shared (binaries and executable files) Launching the Tool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To launch the Graphical User Interface version of the VTune analyzer, double- click the Intel(R) VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer icon on you desktop, or run: \Shared\Bin\VTuneEnv.exe To launch the command-line version of the VTune analyzer, enter vtl at the command-line. 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