# Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking

> Source: <https://pantheongpu.com/>
> Published: 2026-08-18 18:47:51+00:00

# 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.

## 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=1.0.14
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=1.0.14
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.