HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

About This Document
This document describes how to use HP Caliper to measure the performance of native applications
running on HP-UX and Linux Integrity servers.
NOTE: For the latest version of this document, go to the HP Caliper Web site at the following
URL and click on Documentation in the Product Information box:
http://hp.com/go/caliper
This document is sometimes updated after a release. The document publication date appears on
the title page.
Intended Audience
This document is written for software developers who want to improve the performance of their
application programs. It assumes that you are familiar with compilers and with performance analysis
concepts. It is not necessary for you to have used a performance analysis tool before to use HP
Caliper.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
New Information
The HP Caliper 5.5 release has the following improvements:
• Includes support for Intel® Itanium® 9500 processors . Most of the measurements available
for previous Itanium processors can be run on the new processor.
• A new option -dcache-hits is added to the dcache measurement. Available only on Intel®
Itanium® 9500 processors, this option specifies that Caliper must measure and report dcache
load hits along with misses.
• A new option --dcache-stores is added to the dcache measurement. Available only on
Intel® Itanium® 9500 processors, this option specifies that Caliper must measure and report
dcache store misses.
Deprecated Options
None
Deleted Information
None.
Document Organization
For information to help you get started, read these chapters:
• “HP Caliper at a Glance” (p. 16) provides an introduction to HP Caliper.
• “Getting Started with the HP Caliper Command-Line Interface” (p. 20) helps you get started
using the HP Caliper command-line interface.
• “Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI” (p. 31) introduces you to the HP Caliper graphical
user interface (GUI).
For more advanced information, read these chapters:
• “HP Caliper Measurement Configuration Files” (p. 42) describes the measurement configuration
files provided with HP Caliper.
• “HP Caliper Options” (p. 47) describes the HP Caliper options in alphabetical order.
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