Intel announced the release of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018, with updated compilers and developer tools. This release of the fully supported product is notable with new features that further enhance the toolset for accelerating HPC applications. One of those new features worth taking a look at is Application Snapshot in Intel VtuneTM Amplifier, which gives you a quick look at an application’s performance profile to see how well, or badly, optimized it is for the latest hardware. This performance snapshot gives easy-to-understand displays of various metrics, including CPU utilization, memory operations and stalls, FPU utilization, MPI and OpenMP parallelism, and I/O efficiency. It also gives recommendations for further analysis, and supports Intel MPI, MPICH, and Cray MPI. Application Snapshot gives immediate feedback to help determine if an application needs performance tuning.