- Expose `NumBatches` in `DMatrix`.
- Small cleanup for removing legacy CUDA stream and ~force CUDA context initialization~.
- Purge old external memory data generation code.
- Use `UpdatePosition` for all nodes and skip `FinalizePosition` when external memory is used.
- Create `encode/decode` for node position, this is just as a refactor.
- Reuse code between update position and finalization.
- A new DMatrix type.
- Extract common code into a new QDM base class.
Not yet working:
- Not exposed to the interface yet, will wait for the GPU implementation.
- ~No meta info yet, still working on the source.~
- Exporting data to CSR is not supported yet.
* Cleanup GPU Hist tests.
- Remove GPU Hist gradient sampling test. The same properties are tested in the gradient
sampler test suite.
- Move basic histogram tests into the histogram test suite.
- Remove the header inclusion of the `updater_gpu_hist.cu` in tests.
- Support resource view in ellpack.
- Define the CUDA version of MMAP resource.
- Define the CUDA version of malloc resource.
- Refactor cuda runtime API wrappers, and add memory access related wrappers.
- gather windows macros into a single header.
- Avoid the use of size_t in the partitioner.
- Use `Span` instead of `Elem` where `node_id` is not needed.
- Remove the `const_cast`.
- Make sure the constness is not removed in the `Elem` by making it reference only.
size_t is implementation-defined, which causes issue when we want to pass pointer or span.
This PR replaces the original RABIT implementation with a new one, which has already been partially merged into XGBoost. The new one features:
- Federated learning for both CPU and GPU.
- NCCL.
- More data types.
- A unified interface for all the underlying implementations.
- Improved timeout handling for both tracker and workers.
- Exhausted tests with metrics (fixed a couple of bugs along the way).
- A reusable tracker for Python and JVM packages.
- Add a test for blocking calls.
- Do not require the queue to be empty after waking up; this frees up the thread to answer blocking calls.
- Handle EOF in read.
- Improve the error message in the result. Allow concatenation of multiple results.
* Update collective implementation.
- Cleanup resource during `Finalize` to avoid handling threads in destructor.
- Calculate the size for allgather automatically.
- Use simple allgather for small (smaller than the number of worker) allreduce.
