[NVIDIA] Extend the custom fp8 accumulate dtype in non-jit scenarios #3827
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This PR extends the custom fp8 dtype in the non-jit scenarios. The custom fp8 dtype is for the grad accumulation where we can do a max op rather than the default add op to accumulate the grads. This is designed for the fp8 parameters whose grads are their new values and we only want to pick the max among the grads of the sub-tensors.
Previously, this custom dtype has to be in the jit scope and this PR relaxes that restriction.
Note, this PR depends on jax-ml/jax#20266
cc. @nluehr @mingxu1067