Support distributed init outside runtime init #276
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Allow users to initialize torch distributed outside of deepspeed.initialize. Specifically needed for MPI discovery (e.g., AML) and other models. This also removes the need for --deepspeed_mpi flag, we will automatically attempt to discover MPI world info if we are not launched with a torch.distributed or deepspeed launcher.
TODO: Need to update documentation, remove --deepspeed_mpi flag, and add unit tests