Through a command-line interface, Intel Thread Checker 3.1 for Linux helps you correctly thread your application. It mitigates the risk of adding threads and can provide hands-on learning. You can use it to quickly find design issues during early development stages as well as integrate it into your test system to keep bugs out.
Patented Advanced Error Detection Engine
- Finds hidden potential errors, such as deadlocks and data races, mapping them to the memory reference and to the source-code line.
- Identifies six levels of threading issues, from errors and warnings to informative comments.
- Displays all necessary warnings for effective threaded application diagnosis.
- Lets you track a potential error to a variable in a line of source code on Intel® compiler-built applications that are compiled for source instrumentation.
- Allows you to use standard debug builds, without recompiling the entire source base.
Intel Thread Checker for Linux finds all the potential, and likely to occur, threading errors such as data race and deadlock conditions and shows where source code changes are required to achieve correct threading. Intel Thread Checker helps make your applications multi-core ready.
As changes to the source code are implemented, Intel Thread Checker can be rerun to track changes that result in less potential threading errors. As changes to the source code are implemented, Intel Thread Checker can be rerun to track changes that result in less potential threading errors.
Native Linux support:
- Work in your native Linux environment, without a remote Windows-based system.
- Familiar command-line interface.
- Easy integration into batch scripts for use in nightly regression test runs.
Support for the latest multi-core processors:
- Provide a competitive advantage on the latest multi-core processors from Intel by getting error-free threaded software to market quickly.
- Prepare for the large number of execution cores in future processors with a high-quality threaded code base.
Intel® 64 architecture support:
- Implement instrumentation flexibly at different points in the development life cycle with source and binary instrumentation of 64-bit and 32-bit applications on processors with Intel 64 architecture.
- Support both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms with identical functionality and user experience for the developer. A common environment for both platforms improves development efficiency.
Command line interface:
- Integrate Intel Thread Checker into your testing environment easily with a scriptable interface.
- Automate testing in batch modes, reducing manual implementation and improving efficiency.
- Simplify the implementation of daily regressions, improving development efficiency.
Selective instrumentation:
- Reduce instrumentation time through selective instrumentation of DLLs.
- Instrument linked libraries are based on the interpretation of the library’s impact on performance, helping to direct tuning effort to where it helps performance most.
Compatibility
- POSIX* threads
- Support for OpenMP*
- Intel® Threading Building Blocks
- Intel® Fortran and C++ Compilers
- GNU C++ for Linux Compilers
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System requirements for x86-based systems
Hardware
Minimum Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 100 MB of disk space
Recommended
- Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology~ or Intel® Xeon® processor or higher
- 2 GB of RAM
Software
Operating System
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
- Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
- Red Hat Fedora Core 4
- Red Flag DC Server 5.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0
- Turbo Linux 10.1
- SGI Propack 4.0
- SGI Propack 5.0
- Miracle Linux 4.0
- Mandriva/Mandrake 10.1
- HaanSoft Linux Server 2006
Compiler
- GNU C++ compiler 3.2.3 or higher
- Intel® C++ Compiler 9.0 for Linux or higher
- Intel® Fortran Compiler 9.0 for Linux or higher
When Intel® compilers are used with compiler instrumentation (-tcheck), Intel compiler version 9.1 or higher must be used for platforms with Intel® 64 architecture.
Required Software for OpenMP Analysis or Source Instrumentation
- Intel C++ Compiler 8.1 for Linux, Package ID: l_cc_p_8.1.026 or higher
- Intel® Fortran Compiler 8.1 for Linux, Package ID: l_fc_p_8.1.023 or higher
System requirements for Itanium 2-based systems
Hardware
Minimum Requirements
- Intel® Itanium® processor
- 1 GB of RAM
- 100 MB of disk space
Recommended
- Dual Intel® Itanium® 2 processors or higher
- 2 GB of RAM
Software
Operating System
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
- Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
- Red Hat Fedora Core 4
- Red Flag DC Server 5.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0
- Turbo Linux 10.1
- SGI Propack 4.0
- SGI Propack 5.0
- Miracle Linux 4.0
- Mandriva/Mandrake 10.1
- HaanSoft Linux* Server 2006
Compiler
- GNU C++ compiler 3.2.3 or higher
- Intel® C++ Compiler 9.0 for Linux or higher
- Intel® Fortran Compiler 9.0 for Linux or higher
When Intel® compilers are used with compiler instrumentation (-tcheck), Intel compiler version 9.1 or higher must be used for platforms with Intel Itanium processors.
Required Software for OpenMP Analysis or Source Instrumentation
- Intel C++ Compiler 9.0 for Linux, Package ID: l_cc_p_9.0.021 or higher
- Intel® Fortran Compiler 8.1 for Linux, Package ID: l_fc_p_9.0.021 or higher
~Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting HT Technology and a Hyper-Threading Technology enabled chipset, BIOS, and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology.