How to get the Intel’s Performance Evaluation and Analysis Kit (IPEAK)

Hi Joyfligh

I'm in the same situation as you, Trying to find which software was used in the two articles by Andrew Ku to generate the trace files of games he tracing.

I posted a question on a recent article and was told that "Ipeak version "v5.2" and that is support x64. Don't know if this a private custom build but from google search's this product does not exist.

I know of a few ways that this could be accomplished, but I want to know how Andrew Ku does it.

1. Use a commercial program : www.hyperio.com (hIOmon), this can export trace data to an XML format that can be read by another Intel tool the "NAS Performance Toolkit". The Intel NASPT tool does have not a kernal drive to take traces as the older IPEAK did.

2. Use Procmon.exe from systinternals, capture a trace, convert with this program http://code.google.com/p/procmontonasptconverter/ to the XML format viewable by the Intel NASPT FS_Analyze.exe tool.

3. Use the Windows Performance analysis tool, xperf.exe to capture a kernal trace of disk_IO. (idea from this site http://sqlvelocity.typepad.com/blog/. The only problem with this is you'd have to figure out how to graph the data in Excel. I'm trying to find a filter that would convert the xperf trace output xml format to the XML format used by the NSAPT FS_Analyze.exe tool. That would very nice.

Naim