Intel® VTune™ Profiler

User Guide

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Date 5/02/2025
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Verify Your Installation

Use a self-check script to validate the installation of Intel® VTune™ Profiler on your system. Ensure that you installed appropriate drivers for data collection. You can run this script on a standalone system or a cluster environment.

The vtune-self-checker script is available in the <install-dir>/bin64 directory on the Windows or Linux system where you installed VTune Profiler. This script runs several representative analysis types on a sample with reliable hot spots. After execution, the script generates a log file that contains diagnostics on the success or failure of the checks. The self-checker script verifies the operation of these analyses:

  • Software sampling and tracing collection (Hotspots and Threading in the user-mode sampling)

  • Core event-based sampling collection (Hotspots in the hardware event-based sampling mode with and without stacks)

  • HPC Performance Characterization

  • Microarchitecture Exploration analysis

  • Memory Access analysis with uncore events

  • Threading with hardware event-based sampling

  • Performance Snapshot

  • GPU Compute/Media Hotspots (source analysis and characterization modes)

The result of the self-check provides these details:

  • Analyses that passed the check
  • Analyses that failed the check
  • Possible collection limitations
  • Steps to overcome collection limitations
  • Information about missing permissions or outdated drivers

Use the --log-dir option when running the script to specify a location for the log file to be stored. This option is useful when running the script on a compute node through a job scheduler.