[TPU] Save checkpoint on global zero only and sync before

[carmocca]

What does this PR do?

#17408 changed the XLA CheckpointIO implementation to not use xm.save().

This meant that we need to save only on rank zero, but updating the logic was missed for Fabric. This bug is unreleased, so it's not mentioned in the README.

Additionally, mark_step is added to sync the graph before saving, to avoid any potential hangs. This is mentioned in the README as an addition.

Discussed with @Liyang90

cc @Borda @carmocca @justusschock @awaelchli @JackCaoG @steventk-g @Liyang90

[Liyang90]

@JackCaoG @will-cromar

[will-cromar]

LGTM. Calling mark_step before checkpointing is always a good idea

[github-actions]

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