About this Document

This User and Reference Guide provides you with the description of the features of the Intel® Trace Collector. This information is provided in the two main sections:

User Guide – provides the usage instructions on Intel® Trace Analyzer and description of all its GUI elements.
Graphical User Interface – provides detailed description of all GUI elements available in Intel® Trace Analyzer.
Intel® Trace Analyzer Reference – provides the reference information for Intel® Trace Analyzer and introduces its main concepts.

F1 Help Availability

Intel Trace Analyzer provides the context-sensitive help available by pressing the F1 button on keyboard. By default, when you press the button, the online version of this document is opened in a browser. If you have an offline copy of this document downloaded from Intel® Software Development Products Registration Center, you can point to the document by setting the ITA_DOC_DIR environment variable. In this case, a help page associated with the currently opened chart or dialog will open upon pressing F1.

Notational Conventions

The following conventions are used in this document.

Convention	Explanation	Example
This type style	Introduces new terms, denotation of terms, placeholders, or titles of manuals.	The term process in this documentation implicitly includes thread.
This type style	Denotes GUI elements	Click OK
This type style	Hyperlinks	https://premier.intel.com/
`This type style`	Commands, arguments, options	`traceanalyzer --cli trace.stf -c0 -w`
`<this type style>`	Placeholders for actual values	`<new_name>`
`$`	Introduces UNIX* commands	`$ ls`
>	Indicates a menu item inside a menu	Main Menu > File > Quit

Note

The term process in this documentation implicitly includes thread. As soon as the Intel® Trace Analyzer loads a trace file that was generated running a multithreaded application, the GUI uses the term thread only if it is applicable. This is done to avoid confusing MPI application programmers who normally use the term process instead of thread.