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Add communication dtypes for all-gathers and reduce scatters in depth tensor parallelism #64

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Why?

  1. Reduce scatters - happen on weight gradients, and researchers increasingly want to do these in fp32.
  2. All gathers - with torch.autocast, these were happening in fp32 by default. We can afford to do these in bf16/fp16.

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