Observed arrival · 2026-09-14

PantheonSim: A GPU Rack on the CPU

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An open-source NVIDIA GPU simulator that runs unmodified CUDA programs on an ordinary CPU, with simulated cards, drivers, libraries, and monitoring tools.

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The simulator presents CUDA software with familiar driver and management interfaces, then interprets kernels on the CPU rather than requiring physical NVIDIA hardware. Its examples include vgpu run with an H100 profile and vgpu test --matrix for running the same program across profiles. The homepage lists CUDA 12 and 13, thirteen GPU profiles, and libraries including cuBLAS, cuDNN, NCCL, cuFFT, and NVRTC.

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