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Quickstart

Installation

Linux or MacOS

GPUStack provides a script to install it as a service on systemd or launchd based systems. To install GPUStack using this method, just run:

curl -sfL https://get.gpustack.ai | sh -s -

Windows

Run PowerShell as administrator (avoid using PowerShell ISE), then run the following command to install GPUStack:

Invoke-Expression (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://get.gpustack.ai" -UseBasicParsing).Content

Other Installation Methods

For manual installation, docker installation or detailed configuration options, please refer to the Installation Documentation.

Getting Started

  1. Run and chat with the llama3.2 model:
gpustack chat llama3.2 "tell me a joke."
  1. Open http://myserver in the browser to access the GPUStack UI. Log in to GPUStack with username admin and the default password. You can run the following command to get the password for the default setup:

Linux or MacOS

cat /var/lib/gpustack/initial_admin_password

Windows

Get-Content -Path "$env:APPDATA\gpustack\initial_admin_password" -Raw
  1. Click Playground in the navigation menu. Now you can chat with the LLM in the UI playground.

Playground Screenshot

  1. Click API Keys in the navigation menu, then click the New API Key button.

  2. Fill in the Name and click the Save button.

  3. Copy the generated API key and save it somewhere safe. Please note that you can only see it once on creation.

  4. Now you can use the API key to access the OpenAI-compatible API. For example, use curl as the following:

export GPUSTACK_API_KEY=myapikey
curl http://myserver/v1-openai/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GPUSTACK_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "llama3.2",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "system",
        "content": "You are a helpful assistant."
      },
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ],
    "stream": true
  }'