<div dir="ltr">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 (<a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/1236">https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/issues/1236</a>).  <div><br></div><div>Regards,<br><div>Charles</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Emmanuel Hamel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manu.hamel@gmail.com" target="_blank">manu.hamel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Here is a message that I received that was not in the "email chain" ...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi Emmanuel. P</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">robably 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) u</span>sing Visual Studio toolchain. You can check here - <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/tree/master/R-package" target="_blank">https://github.com/Microsoft<wbr>/LightGBM/tree/master/R-packag<wbr>e</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you will find it useful please report back to this mailing list, so we will be aware of it. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-23 15:00 GMT+04:00  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcpp-devel-request@lists.r-forge.r-project.org" target="_blank">rcpp-devel-request@lists.r-fo<wbr>rge.r-project.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Send Rcpp-devel mailing list submissions to<br>         <a href="mailto:rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org" target="_blank">rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-pro<wbr>ject.org</a><br><br> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>         <a href="https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.r-forge.r-projec<wbr>t.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo<wbr>/rcpp-devel</a><br><br> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>         <a href="mailto:rcpp-devel-request@lists.r-forge.r-project.org" target="_blank">rcpp-devel-request@lists.r-for<wbr>ge.r-project.org</a><br><br> You can reach the person managing the list at<br>         <a href="mailto:rcpp-devel-owner@lists.r-forge.r-project.org" target="_blank">rcpp-devel-owner@lists.r-forge<wbr>.r-project.org</a><br><br> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br> than "Re: Contents of Rcpp-devel digest..."</blockquote></div></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-23 11:28 GMT-05:00 Qiang Kou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qkou@umail.iu.edu" target="_blank">qkou@umail.iu.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Emmanuel Hamel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manu.hamel@gmail.com" target="_blank">manu.hamel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></span><div>In MXNet R package, we also compile the cuda code using visual studio to generate the dll.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the easiest way I know.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>KK</div></div>
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