Distributed optimizer infrastructure for FP8 parameters #1723
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This PR does some refactoring that will enable distributed optimizer support for FP8 parameters in NeMo. It adds the option to do parameter all-gathers in integer dtypes and adds two member functions -
_check_params_shard_dtypes
and_param_copy_fragments
- to handle casting into and out of the all-gather buffer. For now these functions will either do a direct cast for floating-point dtypes or copy the most significant bytes for other dtypes. I plan to override these functions in the NeMo derived class so that it casts to FP8, performs the all-gather in UINT8, and unpacks into a custom FP8 tensor class.This PR depends on #1719 and #1721.