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GPU stress testing and diagnostics

Pantheon tests GPU compute, memory, cache, interconnect, and power behavior. Run focused workloads, capture telemetry, and keep the results for comparison.

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45 workloadsfocused stress tests
CUDA + ROCmNVIDIA and AMD support
Local reportsexportable telemetry

Quick Start

The Debian package is the simplest installation path for Ubuntu and Debian systems.

1. Install prerequisites

Install the basic build tools:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y make g++

Then install the compiler for your GPU platform. You only need one:

sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-cuda-toolkit

sudo apt-get install -y hipcc

2. Install Pantheon

Download and install the latest Debian package:

VERSION=1.0.13
wget "https://github.com/saqibkh/pantheongpu_website/releases/download/v${VERSION}/pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install "./pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"

To uninstall the Debian package later:

sudo apt-get remove pantheongpu

3. Verify the installation

Run a short hardware inventory test:

pantheon --test baseline_metrics --duration 10

Then run a targeted stress test on GPU 0:

pantheon --test fp64_virus --duration 30 --gpu 0

Note

Pantheon automatically detects CUDA, ROCm/HIP, or mock mode. Run the pantheon command directly; you do not need to pass --platform cuda.

Completely remove Pantheon

The native package command above removes Pantheon's package-managed files. To also remove runtime-created files and the current user's compiled workload cache, or to remove a portable installation on RHEL, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or another Linux distribution, run:

curl -fsSL https://pantheongpu.com/uninstall.sh | sudo sh

This leaves CUDA, ROCm, system compilers, and benchmark reports stored outside Pantheon's installation and cache directories untouched.

Alternative: install from the release bundle

The release bundle contains the Debian package and an install.sh helper for RHEL-family and other Linux distributions.

VERSION=1.0.13
wget "https://github.com/saqibkh/pantheongpu_website/releases/download/v${VERSION}/pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64.tar.gz"
cd "pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64"
sudo apt install "./packages/pantheongpu_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"

Uninstall a Debian package installation with:

sudo apt-get remove pantheongpu

On RHEL-family and other Linux systems, install the portable bundle with sudo ./install.sh. Remove that installation with:

sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/pantheon && sudo rm -rf /opt/pantheongpu

Use the complete-removal command above if you also want to clear the current user's compiled workload cache.

Build cache

First-run workload builds are cached under ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/pantheongpu/builds/. Set PANTHEON_BUILD_CACHE_DIR to choose another writable cache directory.