Intel Advisor
Introduction
This tutorial will guide you how to run advisor in AMD processors, we explore also the type of code we can profile.
Project setup
First of all we are going to prepare an executable to run the test, we can copy the nqueens example from advisor installation directory:
cp /dcsrsoft/spack/external/intel/2021.2/advisor/2021.2.0/samples/en/C++/nqueens_Advisor.tgz .
we extract the contents and then we compile the serial version:
make 1_nqueens_serial
Then we create a project using advisor gui:
We configure the path of our nqueens executable (or the executable you want to profile), and we click on OK.
Several analysis are proposed:
We start with Vectorization and Code insights which will give us information about the parallelization opportunities in the code. itIt Will identify loops that will benefit most from vector parallelism, discover performance issues, etc, the summerysummary window will give us more details.
Using SLURM
For using Advisor in the clustercluster, it is better to use the command line. The GUI can giveprovide the commands to run. Let’s run the survey, to see the command to run, click on the following button
This will show the exact command to use:
We can copy that line in our slurm job:
#!/bin/sh
#SBATCH --job-name test-prof
#SBATCH --error advisor-%j.error
#SBATCH --output advisor-%j.out
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task 1
#SBATCH --partition cpu
#SBATCH --time 1:00:00
dcsrsoft/spack/external/intel/2021.2/advisor/2021.2.0/bin64/advisor -collect survey -project-dir /users/cruiz1/profilers/intel/advisor/nqueens_study --app-working-dir=/users/cruiz1/profilers/intel/advisor/nqueens_Advisor -- /use\
rs/cruiz1/profilers/intel/advisor/nqueens_Advisor/1_nqueens_serial
we launch the job:
sbatch slurm_advisor.sh
check for errors in Slurm output files.
Checking results
If we close and reopen the projectproject, we see that we have some results.
We have recommendations for using other instruction sets because no vector instruction set was detected.
We see the most time consuming loops:
itIt detects correctly the CPU
In the survey window we have more details about the call stack:
In thisOn the window above we should see recommendation about the vector instructions to use,use. thisThis is missing probably due to the fact that we are using an AMD processors. If we explore the windows at the bottom we see more information, as source code, top down, code analysis, etc. We see that we should collect first the trip count information.
So we go to characterization, to improve analysis we should choose a loop, this can be done inon the survey window:
And then lanchlaunch the charatecrisitation,characterizitation, again we ask for the cmd line :
The generated command will contain the options:Tripcounts
tripcounts -flop -stacks -mark-up-list-2
We can see the different trip counts for each loop:
We can now repeat the process for memory access analysis
After running the analysis, we have new information:
If we compile the code with more performant instruction set, this is detected in the summary window:
