Intel® Advisor User Guide

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Run GPU-to-GPU Performance Modeling from Command Line

With
Intel® Advisor
, you can model performance of SYCL, OpenCL™, or OpenMP* target application running on a graphics processing unit (GPU) for a different GPU device without its CPU version. For this, run the GPU-to-GPU modeling workflow of the
Offload Modeling
 perspective.
The GPU-to-GPU modeling analyzes only GPU compute kernels and ignores the application parts executed on a CPU. As a result, there are several changes in the modeling flow:
  • Compute kernels characteristics are collected with the
    Intel Advisor
     GPU profiling capabilities.
  • High-overhead features, such as call stack handling, cache simulation, data transfer simulation, dependencies analysis, are disabled.
  • Instead of CPU-to-GPU data transfer simulation, memory objects transferred between host and device memory are traced.

Workflow

The GPU-to-GPU performance modeling workflow is similar to the CPU-to-GPU modeling and includes the following steps:
  1. Survey analysis measures execution time, cache, and GTI traffic using hardware counters for GPU-enabled kernels running on an Intel® Graphics.
  2. Characterization analysis measures the number of compute operations counting different GPU instructions separately for kernels running on a Intel Graphics. For example, it implements separate counters for hardware-implemented 32-bit math functions, such as SQRT, EXP, DIV.
  3. Performance Modeling analysis models performance of all kernels on a target GPU device, whether they are profitable or not.
For correct memory object tracing, GPU kernels should run with the oneAPI Level Zero back end.

Prerequisites

  1. Configure your system to analyze GPU kernels.
  2. Set
    Intel Advisor
     environment variables     with an automated script to enable
    Intel Advisor
     command line interface.

Run the GPU-to-GPU Performance Modeling

To run the GPU-to-GPU performance modeling from command line, you can use
one
 of the following methods:
  • Method 1
    . Run a collection preset using
    Intel Advisor
     command line interface (CLI) to execute multiple analyses with a single command and control modeling accuracy.
  • Method 2
    . Run analyses separately using
    Intel Advisor
     CLI if you need more advanced customization for each analysis.
  • Method 3
    . Run Python* scripts if you need more customization for collection and modeling steps.
You can also run the GPU-to-GPU
Offload Modeling
 from
Intel Advisor
 graphical user interface (GUI). See Run Offload Modeling Perspective from GUI.
After you run the
Offload Modeling
 with any method above, you can view the results in
Intel Advisor
 graphical user interface (GUI), command line interface (CLI), or an interactive HTML report. For example, the interactive HTML report is similar to the following:
GPU-to-GPU Offload Modeling Summary in GUI
If you want to analyze an MPI application, you can generate pre-configured command lines, copy them, and run one by one. For details, see Generate Pre-configured Command Lines.

Method 1. Use Collection Preset

To run the collection preset for the GPU-to-GPU modeling, use the
--gpu
 option with the
--collect=offload
 action. When you run the collection, it sequentially runs data collection on a GPU and performance modeling steps. The specific analyses and options depend on the
accuracy level
 you specify for the collection.
Note
: In the commands below, make sure to replace the
myApplication
 with your application executable path and name
before
 executing a command. If your application requires additional command line options, add them
after
 the executable name.
For example, to run the GPU-to-GPU modeling with the default (medium) accuracy level:
  • On Linux* OS: 
    advisor --collect=offload --gpu --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
  • On Windows* OS: 
    advisor --collect=offload --gpu --project-dir=.\advi_results -- myApplication.exe
The collection progress and commands for each analysis executed will be printed to a terminal or a command prompt. When the collection is finished, you will see the result summary.
You can also specify a different accuracy level to change analyses to run and their options. Available accuracy levels are
low
,
medium
 (default), and
high
.
For example, run the high accuracy level: 
advisor --collect=offload --accuracy=high --gpu --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
If you want to see the commands that are executed at each accuracy level, you can run the collection with the
--dry-run
 and
--gpu
 options. The commands will be printed to a terminal or a command prompt.
For details about each accuracy level, see Offload Modeling Accuracy Levels in Command Line.

Method 2. Use per-Analysis Collection

You can collect data and model performance for your application by running each
Offload Modeling
 analysis in a separate command for more advanced customization. To enable the GPU-to-GPU modeling, use the
--profile-gpu
 option for each analysis you run.
Consider the following workflow example. Using this example, you can run the Survey, Trip Counts, and FLOP analyses to profile an application running on a GPU and the Performance Modeling to model its performance on
Intel® Iris® X
e
 MAX graphics (
gen12_dg1
 configuration)
.
Note
: In the commands below, make sure to replace the
myApplication
 with your application executable path and name
before
 executing a command. If your application requires additional command line options, add them
after
 the executable name.
On Linux OS:
  1. Run the Survey analysis. 
    advisor --collect=survey --profile-gpu --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
  2. Run the Trip Counts and FLOP analyses with data transfer estimation. 
    advisor --collect=tripcounts --profile-gpu --flop --target-device=gen12_dg1 --data-transfer=light --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
  3. Run the Performance Modeling analysis. 
    advisor --collect=projection --profile-gpu --config=gen12_dg1 --project-dir=./advi_results
    You will see the result summary printed to the command prompt.
On Windows OS:
  1. Run the Survey analysis. 
    advisor --collect=survey --project-dir=.\advi_results -- myApplication.exe
  2. Run the Trip Counts and FLOP analyses with data transfer. 
    advisor --collect=tripcounts --profile-gpu --flop --stacks --target-device=gen12_dg1 --data-transfer=light --project-dir=.\advi_results -- myApplication.exe
  3. Run the Performance Modeling analysis. 
    advisor --collect=projection --profile-gpu --config=gen12_dg1 --project-dir=.\advi_results
    You will see the result summary printed to the command prompt.

Method 3. Use Python* Scripts

Intel Advisor
 has three scripts that use the
Intel Advisor
 Python* API to run the
Offload Modeling
 -
run_oa.py
,
collect.py
,
analyze.py
. You can run the scripts with the
advisor-python
 command line interface of the
Intel Advisor
 or with your local Python 3.6 or 3.7.
To enable the GPU-to-GPU modeling, use the
--gpu
 option for each script you run.
The scripts
do not
 support MPI applications. To analyze an MPI application, use the per-analysis collection with the
Intel Advisor
 CLI.
You can run the
Offload Modeling
 using different combinations of the scripts and/or the
Intel Advisor
 CLI. For example:
  • Run
    run_oa.py
     to profile application and model its performance.
  • Run the
    collect.py
     to profile application and
    analyze.py
     to model its performance. Re-run
    analyze.py
     to remodel with a different configuration.
  • Run the
    Intel Advisor
     CLI to collect performance data and
    analyze.py
     to model performance. Re-run
    analyze.py
     to remodel with a different configuration.
  • Run
    run_oa.py
     to collect data and model performance for the first time and run
    analyze.py
     to remodel with a different configuration.
Consider the following examples of some typical scenarios with Python scripts.
Note
: In the commands below, make sure to replace the
myApplication
 with your application executable path and name
before
 executing a command. If your application requires additional command line options, add them
after
 the executable name.
Example 1
. Run the
run_oa.py
 script to profile an application on GPU and model its performance for
Intel® Iris® X
e
 MAX graphics (
gen12_dg1
 configuration)
.
  • On Linux OS: 
    advisor-python $APM/run_oa.py ./advi_results --gpu --config=gen12_dg1 -- ./myApplication
  • On Windows OS: 
    advisor-python %APM%\run_oa.py .\advi_results --gpu --config=gen12_dg1 -- myApplication.exe
You will see the result summary printed to the command prompt.
Example 2
. Run the
collect.py
 to profile an application on GPU and run the
analyze.py
 to model its performance for
Intel® Iris® X
e
 MAX graphics (
gen12_dg1
 configuration)
.
  • On Linux OS:
    1. Collect performance data. 
      advisor-python $APM/collect.py ./advi_results --gpu --config=gen12_dg1 -- ./myApplication
    2. Model application performance. 
      advisor-python $APM/analyze.py ./advi --gpu --config=gen12_dg1
      You will see the result summary printed to the command prompt.
  • On Windows OS:
    1. Collect performance data. 
      advisor-python %APM%\collect.py .\advi_results --collect=basic --gpu --config=gen12_dg1 -- myApplication.exe
    2. Model application performance. 
      advisor-python %APM%\analyze.py .\advi_results --gpu --config=gen12_dg1
      You will see the result summary printed to the command prompt.

View the Results

Once the
Intel Advisor
 finishes the analyses, the result is available in the following formats:
  • Review the result summary and a result file location printed to a command prompt or a terminal.
  • Review the project result in the
    Intel Advisor
     GUI generated to the project directory.
  • Review HTML reports generated to the
    <project-dir>
    /e
    <NNN>
    /report
     directory.
    View the detailed information about HTML reports in Work with Standalone HTML Reports.
  • Review a set of reports generated to the
    <project-dir>
    /e
    <NNN>
    /pp
    <NNN>
    /data.0
     directory. The directory includes the main report in HTML format named as
    report.html
     and a set of CSV files with detailed metric tables.
For example, the result in the Intel Advisor GUI looks as follows:
GPU-to-GPU Offload Modeling Summary in GUI
To explore the interactive HTML report, you can download precollected Offload Modeling reports and examine the results and structure.
See Explore Offload Modeling Results for details about available result formats and Explore Performance Gain from GPU-to-GPU Modeling for details about the GPU-to-GPU modeling result.

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.