Intel has begun shipping a new version of the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer 2.0 for the Linux operating system, its first fully Linux-native performance analysis tool for the Intel Itanium processor family. The Intel VTune Performance Analyzer identifies lines of code in an application that consume excessive amounts of processor resources. Developers can use this analysis to quickly identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks.
Intel also introduced version 2.0 of the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer Driver Kit. The kit adds open source drivers for the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, allowing developers to use the tool with unsupported Linux distributions and customized kernels. The new Intel VTune Performance Analyzer 2.0 for Linux offers more flexibility and convenience for Linux users through a command line interface, Java support, a Getting Started guide and “flow of control” analysis previously only available for Windows-based applications. It also features a “Pack and Go” option wherein the results from the Linux server can be transferred back to a Windows-based system for Windows-based applications with remote support for Linux. More information is available at www.intel.com/software/products.
