Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE and Intel® VTune™ Amplifier for Systems Help

Related Information

For better understanding of the performance data provided by the Intel® VTune™ Amplifier, you are highly recommended to explore additional resources on the web.

Intel® Processor Information

For the most updates, errata, and the latest information on Intel processors, explore the resources available at http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html. The following sections describe processor manuals for Intel 64, IA-32 architecture processors and for Intel Itanium® processors.

Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Manuals

The Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual consists of the following volumes that describe the architecture and programming environment of all Intel 64 and IA-32 architecture processors:

Please refer to all volumes when evaluating your design needs.

For more information on processor-specific performance analysis, explore articles and tuning guides available for download at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/processor-specific-performance-analysis-papers/.

Multithreading

You are strongly encouraged to read the following books for in-depth understanding of threading. Each book discusses general concepts of parallel programming by explaining a particular programming technology:

Technology

Resource

Intel Threading Building Blocks

Reinders, James. Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism. O'Reilly, July 2007 (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514808/)

OpenMP* technology

Chapman, Barbara, Gabriele Jost, Ruud van der Pas, and David J. Kuck (foreword). Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming. MIT Press, October 2007 (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11387)

Microsoft Win32* Threading

Akhter, Shameem, and Jason Roberts. Multi-Core Programming: Increasing Performance through Software Multithreading, Intel Press, April 2006 (http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_mcp.htm).