Accelerating XGBoost on GPU Clusters with Dask

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-xgboost-on-gpu-clusters-with-dask/

In XGBoost 1.0, we introduced a new, official Dask interface to support efficient distributed training.  Fast-forwarding to XGBoost 1.4, the interface is now feature-complete. If you are new to the XGBoost Dask interface, look at the first post for a gentle introduction. In this post, we look at simple code examples, showing how to maximize…