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Document CUDA requirement, lack of external memory on GPU (#3624)

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* Document fact that GPU doesn't support external memory

* Document CUDA requirement
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@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ XGBoost GPU Support
This page contains information about GPU algorithms supported in XGBoost. This page contains information about GPU algorithms supported in XGBoost.
To install GPU support, checkout the :doc:`/build`. To install GPU support, checkout the :doc:`/build`.
.. note:: CUDA 8.0, Compute Capability 3.5 required
The GPU algorithms in XGBoost require a graphics card with compute capability 3.5 or higher, with
CUDA toolkits 8.0 or later.
(See `this list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#GPUs_supported>`_ to look up compute capability of your GPU card.)
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CUDA Accelerated Tree Construction Algorithms CUDA Accelerated Tree Construction Algorithms
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@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ The external memory version takes in the following filename format:
The ``filename`` is the normal path to libsvm file you want to load in, and ``cacheprefix`` is a The ``filename`` is the normal path to libsvm file you want to load in, and ``cacheprefix`` is a
path to a cache file that XGBoost will use for external memory cache. path to a cache file that XGBoost will use for external memory cache.
.. note:: External memory is not available with GPU algorithms
External memory is not available when ``tree_method`` is set to ``gpu_exact`` or ``gpu_hist``.
The following code was extracted from `demo/guide-python/external_memory.py <https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/demo/guide-python/external_memory.py>`_: The following code was extracted from `demo/guide-python/external_memory.py <https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/demo/guide-python/external_memory.py>`_:
.. code-block:: python .. code-block:: python