xgboost/demo/rmm_plugin

Using XGBoost with RAPIDS Memory Manager (RMM) plugin (EXPERIMENTAL)

RAPIDS Memory Manager (RMM) library provides a collection of efficient memory allocators for NVIDIA GPUs. It is now possible to use XGBoost with memory allocators provided by RMM, by enabling the RMM integration plugin.

The demos in this directory highlights one RMM allocator in particular: the pool sub-allocator. This allocator addresses the slow speed of cudaMalloc() by allocating a large chunk of memory upfront. Subsequent allocations will draw from the pool of already allocated memory and thus avoid the overhead of calling cudaMalloc() directly. See this GTC talk slides for more details.

Before running the demos, ensure that XGBoost is compiled with the RMM plugin enabled. To do this, run CMake with option -DPLUGIN_RMM=ON (-DUSE_CUDA=ON also required):

cmake .. -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DUSE_NCCL=ON -DPLUGIN_RMM=ON
make -j4

CMake will attempt to locate the RMM library in your build environment. You may choose to build RMM from the source, or install it using the Conda package manager. If CMake cannot find RMM, you should specify the location of RMM with the CMake prefix:

# If using Conda:
cmake .. -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DUSE_NCCL=ON -DPLUGIN_RMM=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$CONDA_PREFIX
# If using RMM installed with a custom location
cmake .. -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DUSE_NCCL=ON -DPLUGIN_RMM=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/rmm

• Using RMM with a single GPU
• Using RMM with a local Dask cluster consisting of multiple GPUs