It is worth noting on this thread that the LightGBM package actually doesn't have a CUDA backend for Windows. It requires an OpenCL SDK as noted here (https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/1236).
Regards, Charles On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Emmanuel Hamel <manu.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a message that I received that was not in the "email chain" ... > > > Hi Emmanuel. Probably you take a look to the approach taken by Microsoft > in LightGBM R package. I do not know details (so approach could be > irrelevant to what you've asked), but on windows they build package (even > with gpu support) using Visual Studio toolchain. You can check here - > https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/tree/master/R-package. > > If you will find it useful please report back to this mailing list, so we > will be aware of it. Thanks. > > > 2018-01-23 15:00 GMT+04:00 <rcpp-devel-requ...@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > >: > >> Send Rcpp-devel mailing list submissions to >> rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo >> /rcpp-devel >> >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> rcpp-devel-requ...@lists.r-forge.r-project.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> rcpp-devel-ow...@lists.r-forge.r-project.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Rcpp-devel digest..." > > > 2018-01-23 11:28 GMT-05:00 Qiang Kou <q...@umail.iu.edu>: > >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Emmanuel Hamel <manu.ha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> For the moment, I compile the GPU code with Visual studio 2015 to make à >>> DLL, and then I call it from R. It is the only solution I found for the >>> moment. >>> >>> >> In MXNet R package, we also compile the cuda code using visual studio to >> generate the dll. >> >> This is the easiest way I know. >> >> Best, >> >> KK >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >
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