[Rcpp-devel] OpenACC, Rcpp and RStudio on Windows

[Charles Determan]

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.hamel at 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.
>
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> 2018-01-23 15:00 GMT+04:00 <rcpp-devel-request at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
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> 2018-01-23 11:28 GMT-05:00 Qiang Kou <qkou at umail.iu.edu>:
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>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Emmanuel Hamel <manu.hamel at 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
>>
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