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Collective Ops From Scratch

The four collective operations that hold distributed training together are allreduce, broadcast, allgather, and reduce_scatter. Every other primitive a training framework offers is a wrapper around these. Build them once over a `multiprocessing.Queue` mesh, verify them against a reference implementation, and the rest of the track becomes plumbing.

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